India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru is not the first man to get bogged down in the morass of pacts, protocols, aides-memoire, memorandums and verbal understandings that spell out Western rights in Berlin. Nehru is merely the latest prominent person to take a reading—and to add confusion to the crisis. Rising in New Delhi's Parliament during a foreign policy debate last week, Nehru gratuitously declared that as far as he and his experts could make it out, the East Germans were legally justified in closing their sector frontier. Raising the question of Western access rights to Berlin, he suggested that the Russians...
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