The foreign ministers of the West who gathered in Paris were agreed on the danger of Berlin, but not on how fast the clock was ticking. They agreed to disagree for now.
As they sat down in the Quai d'Orsay's gilded Salon de Beauvais in Paris to work out an allied reply to the latest Communist gambits, it was U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk who was most eager for action. All the ministers agreed that, if need be, the West would have to risk war. But all still hoped to find a formula for peace; all now recognized that major negotiations...
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