The governments of France and Great Britain dutifully joined the U.S. last week in delivering to Khrushchev the toughest warning yet on his self-started Berlin crisis (see THE NATION). But just how willing were the peoples of Britain and France, who have suffered cruelly from the Germans in two world wars, to fight a showdown battle for Berlin? The answer: not very willing, at least now.
Britain has long had a vocal minority of unilateralists on the Left. In the atomic age, war to them seems senseless for any causeeven their own freedomas is evidenced by their slogan, "I'd rather...
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