So eight more were closed. We still did nothing. Refugees from Communist dictatorship in East Germany and East Berlin surged into West Berlin and West Germany in ever increasing numbersreaching a flood tide of 30.444 in the month of July 1961. The President returned from the Vienna meeting in June 1961. stating publicly that nothing in particular had happened but that a firsthand viewpoint of Khrushchevs attitude had been obtained. Shortly thereafter the new Soviet memo presented to the President at that meeting. and threatening a separate peace treaty with East Germany before the end of the year. in violation of all concepts and agreements of a unified Germany. was revealed to the American people.
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