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Drawing on newly published executive papers, John Gearson assesses the improvement of Harold Macmillan's international coverage throughout the Berlin Wall challenge. Tracing the sour alliance disputes of the concern, Dr Gearson exhibits how Macmillan's makes an attempt to chart an self reliant path, crucially undermined his status together with his ecu companions and printed his stressed method of ecu safeguard. Berlin is positioned on the centre of attention of British overseas coverage, making this ebook a major contribution to the historiography of the interval.
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75 The approach of British policy-makers took on a somewhat schizophrenic quality. As the issue of reunification was so closely bound up with the issues of European security and disarmament, the discussion of one automatically involved the others. Notwithstanding some reluctance by the Western powers to pursue reunification, the desire for an accommodation with the USSR on European security and disarmament led the West inevitably into discussion of the German problem. 76 Western public opinion pushed for progress on security and disarmament, whilst Western spokesmen struggled to avoid the impression that only the German question stood in the way of agreement.
This resulted from an ill-conceived decision by the Foreign Office to present the problem as a stark choice between compromising on dealing with the East German regime, or preparing for war. Although this reflected concerns shared by a number of Western countries, Britain's policy of emphasising the extent to which the West was powerless to stop Khrushchev damaged Anglo-German relations and set the tone for the entire Berlin crisis. KHRUSHCHEV'S ULTIMATUM Signs of an impending crisis had been gathering during 1958, with a persistent campaign of low-level harassment of the Western presence in Berlin and escalating propaganda against West Germany.
In Washington, the Eisenhower administration had also been surprised by Khrushchev's speech, and opinion differed on whether it 40 Harold Macmillan and the Berlin Wall Crisis posed an immediate threat or not. Dulles argued that a transfer of power would probably take place and that poUcy planning should take account of this likelihood. 40 When the British steering telegram arrived in Washington and Paris, it became apparent that Britain's aUies were aghast at the implication that recognising the DDR was London's preferred position.