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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 7

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Corpus Christi, Texas
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-T 7 7- II' -'t r' V' V- 'V- Al i conrirs CIIRISTI CALLER Thurs Aug IT 1961 7 PROPAGANDA ADVANTAGE Red Move in Berlin Valuable US Tool Continued Spotlight on Berlin May Discredit Reds9 Prestige ns decided to limit the note to a protest Home reference to negotiations may he made in the replies hy the United States Britain and France to the notes sent them hy the Soviet Union on Aug 3 The Soviet notes were in the Western view largely a restatement of Soviet views on Berlin and Gere many The Western powers have been considering for some time whether lo Like the initiative in propos ng negotiations Sources here say this step cannot be excluded from speculation but Hint a decision has not been made vr N' "'( This view Is shared by the Ken- nedy administration and by olher that the International spotlight should be kept on the prosem clorn authnritirs It is one of situatum in Berlin for ns long reasons why the United States possihk Britain and France will limit Nothing is belter riilcukiicd (c their note to tlic Soviet govein- ADEN AVER nolJRTS WAR AT PRESENT BONN Germany Ut Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said Wednesday night he does not believe the Rerlin crisis will lead to war "The present Hiluntion ix only the the West (lei nmn liMder declared in an elect Inn speech hero before crowd of nlwul 6000 "Jhe real ci Ms still is to come" "Khrushchev has demanded tliat Berlin be turned into a free city nnd separate peace treaties signed with both German stales Only when the Soviet Union attempts to realize these demands we will have the true the chancellor said in Rerlin lo the Soviet commandant Tliis denounced the East German measures ns illegal The Western representatives had considered incorporating in the note an indication of tivir will-lingne-s to negotiate Tlie desire io keep the spotlight on tlic East German restrictions was one reason it is said here why it Morn Hi-rlln News In on PagcR 1 8A u''iit on 'lie unu-refugcc mcas- discmlit the Soviet Union's attempt to get International re-- ognilmn for East Germany's Com- Ulii lo a lr8ht protest 4-Day Special! By 1 KnilKItTH Anmu'IhIpU NVu An-ilyat Communist repressive measures against the unhappy people of Finst Germany have handed thr United Slate a propaganda maul with which she to pound the 'inger n( the Soviet every time they reach for political support among the world's still-unrommitted nations Mu new demoastrntion of Soviet lack of concern for the working people whom they once pretended to represent a the rntreprrneuers of class war fits right into an airoady-operatinz US propaganda program It fit the new Kennedy admin Istration emphasis on Soviet Insincerity recirdmg tV self determination which it champions with words among the unrommil-rd but denies for Kastnrn Europe This note is being prepared by the ambassadorial steering group in Washington In llm group are tlie nmiMssadors of Britain France and West Germany and Foy Kohler assistant secretary of state for European affairs The present plan is for the note scheduled lo be delivered in Mos-row this week to follow the lines of the protest made Tuesday by ihe three Western commandants mnnist regime Hum Hie evincive that that regime can retain its people only hchnd barlied wire informed sources said here Wednesday The British believe it should also be evident to neutralists and others to whom the Sovipt Union appealing for support in the Rerlin dispute that the East German regime can exist only under Hie protection of Soviet tanks One of the purposes of Tre-mirr Khrushchev in treating the Rerlin rrisis and threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany was to get rrmg' nition of that slate as a sovereign' nnd independent country By sealing off tlic border with-West Berlin to stop the outflow of refugees East Germany and the Soviet Union have suffered a severe blow to their prestige thatj the West should exploit it is said here choice among nations and the demonstration of her interest in neutrality solely ss a way station on Hie road to Communist takeover The positive emphasis of the United States on economic and social development for emerging nations without payment in kind through subserviency It could have an important ef feet in the long run as skies are chosen on various issues in the United Nations Students of Soviet affairs are inclined to think that Fremier Khrushchev balanced the known risk of East Orman reaction against his possible gains and moved deliberately They douht he expected at any time to get West Rerlin in the current series of move They he lieve he thought that hy keeping up a constant war of nerve he could gradually erode the determination and by building urynililary repression cause the West to tremble when the East German regime comes vp eventually with its demand that the West obey new rules of access Now he may suffer a double in propaganda ami in a new Western unity which lie spurred himself and which lias produced something that is very a calm cold and unserving deter-mination expressed in sweeping military terms to go to war over Berlin if necessary It turn out to lie the great esl backfire of propaganda in history Siv Months in Jail' Is Theft Sentence Juan Basquez Arada of 1610 Morris was sentenced to six month in county jail jrsterdsy after pleading guilty to ihe theft of an electric grinder from Bill reltit Judge Horace Young of County Court at Law No 1 ordered the defendant to pay court costs of J277ri The Voice of America and olhcr propaganda media are hilling the East German refugee story hard around (lie work! 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