"We have two problems," said President Eisenhower last week at the end of a press conference where major questions dealt with the Berlin crisis. "One, not to allow ourselves to get thrown off balance, to get frightened, to get hysterical about the thing; but on the other hand, don't be so indifferent that we are certain that it's just a cry of wolf."
All week the President, deprived of cancer-stricken John Foster Dulles, led the nation between these extremes. He took charge of a three-hour National Security Council meeting, battened down the U.S....
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