A Political Decision Which the Soldiers Did Not Reverse
Compressing a momentous year of wartime history into a few sentences, a new State Department pamphlet titled BackgroundBerlin, 1961 has drawn strong complaints from Republican Congressmen because it seemed to blame Dwight Eisenhower for allowing the Russians to capture Berlin. Last week the State Department announced that the questioned passage would be rewritten. The Department's backtracking was appropriatefor in fact the cold-war history of Berlin is one that keeps getting added to, but has seldom been added up right.
IN the cold, wet spring of...