But as an appalled White House aid put it. It is not only a great concession but an "Impossible concession" and one that has already been specifically ruled out by President Kennedy in his Berlin speech. Even the Russians have long hesitated at giving the world the spectacle of turning back at gunpoint-.-for no other device would sufficethe men. women. and children risking all to get from Communist East Berlin to freedom Can anyone seriously imagine the West cooperating in this grisly spectacle of physically turning back those desperately seeking asylum? And why should the West be entrapped into doing communisms dirty work? For there Is every evidence that the Russians do not. in practice. havi the power completely to seal off the Berlin escape hatch for the reason that to do so would bring more problems than It solves.
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