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Will Nikita Khrushchev perhaps also want to be a little more reasonable with regard to the issues of West Berlin and Germany? Any negotiations leading to a relaxation of East-West tensions must naturally include give and take on both sides.
For the West there can be no diminution of basic principles. U.S. policy toward Germany must remain aimed at seeking the eventual reunification of that country—no matter how remote the possibility may seem. To "normalize" Berlin by recognizing, in no matter what degree, that that geopolitical abortion is a permanent fact of life, would be to sentence West Berlin, for so long an inspirational outpost of freedom, to a lingering but inevitable death.