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By J. Gearson
Drawing on newly published govt papers, John Gearson assesses the advance of Harold Macmillan's international coverage throughout the Berlin Wall problem. Tracing the sour alliance disputes of the hindrance, Dr Gearson exhibits how Macmillan's makes an attempt to chart an autonomous path, crucially undermined his status along with his ecu companions and published his stressed method of eu protection. Berlin is positioned on the centre of attention of British international coverage, making this ebook an immense contribution to the historiography of the interval.
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The appeal of the EFTA to the Germans was misjudged, with London convinced that it would be picked by West Grermany in preference to the EEC. Following Khrushchev's initial threats over Berlin in November 1958, Macmillan even attempted to link EFTA and Berlin, proposing to warn Adenauer that the FRG's behaviour over EFTA had been unsatisfactory. 32 Harold Macmillan and the Berlin Wall Crisis Grerman support for the EFTA had been hesitant and Macmillan saw the problem of Sixes (the EEC) and Sevens (the EFTA countries) in Europe as the central question of the time.
Like the Soviets, Kennan was most concerned about moves to arm the West Germans with nuclear weapons and feared that once they were introduced, solving the German question would become infinitely more complicated as it would become irrevocably linked with nuclear disarmament. Much of what he said was sober and realistic, but what dismayed all Western governments were his solutions. The 28 Harold Macmillan and the Berlin Wall Crisis Soviets' fear of German nuclearisation, Kennan argued, suggested a willingness on the part of the USSR to pay a certain price (withdrawal from Eastern Germany) to avert it.
103 By late 1958 Anglo-German relations were heading for their post-war low over this issue. At the start of the Berlin Wall crisis Macmillan was to show himself still attracted by the idea of a security arrangement with the Soviets in return for an agreement on Berlin. Britain, Macmillan and Berlin At the start of the 1958 Berlin crisis, Macmillan was emotionally and pragmatically predisposed to an accommodation with the USSR at the expense of West Grerman security interests. The Berlin crisis reopened the debate on the future of Germany and ended all ongoing discussions of disengagement in Britain, but Anglo-German relations had already suffered serious damage.