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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, August 1, 1961
Khrushchev Says Berlin War Could Kill Millions
LONDON — (UPI) — Diplomatic sources have reported that Premier Nikita Khrushchev has said that if war breaks out over Berlin as many as 200 million persons may perish.
United Press International obtained from diplomatic sources the strange story of how Khrushchev made the statement to Sir Frank Roberts, British Ambassador to Moscow, between the acts of a performance at the Bolshoi Theater by the British Royal Ballet.
Khrushchev put this question to Roberts: "Why should 200,000,000 persons die for 2,000,000 Berliners?" The incident took place early this month. Among other things Khrushchev told Roberts:
- Twenty Russian nuclear bombs
- 10 on each country—would be all
be would need to wipe out Britain
and France.
He left no doubt about his intention of signing a separate peace treaty this year with East Germany. He emphasized that if the East Germans imposed a blockade and the West tried to break it then "This is war."
—Referring to France's intention to bring one division home from Algeria, Khrushchev said; "I can mobilize 300 divisions."
—He considers the west's insistence on its rights in Berlin as a "prestige" matter. He said he was prepared to take that into account.
—He ruled out unification of Germany and implied that the partition of the nation was here to stay.
The warnings were delivered when the Russian Premier invited Roberts to sit in his box at the ballet performance starring Dame Margot Fonteyn, Britain's prima ballerina.
Dinner was served at the first internission and Khrushchev immediately launched into his warning to the West, occasionally sandwiching in a compliment to Dame Margot's brilliant performance.
Khrushchev let it be understood that he considers the balance of power in Europe has changed radically and that Russia is on equal footing with all the Western nations.
Alabama U. Fight Rages
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — (UPI) — President Frank A. Rose of the University of Alabama has appointed five faculty members to investigate the alleged "lack of professional restraint" of a professor who charged the school was "more interested in basket-weaving than in conquering space."
Rose charged Dr. C. E. Mandeville has failed consistently "to meet the generally accepted standards of professional responsibility for accuracy and appropriate restraint required of a university faculty in this nation."
Mandeville's chief "lack" of restraint appeared to be his statement prior to a scheduled legislative committee hearing last week. Mandeville, head of the physics department, charged the administration with setting critically low limits on funds for all University science departments.
He told the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee that his department had to let graduate students build their own equipment before they could proceed to research projects. The committee was hearing testimony on a proposed $3 million bond issue for creation of a Science and Research Center adjacent to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Center at Huntsville.
Mandeville charged the University had deliberately quashed efforts to foster scientific progress and threatened to dismiss him if he spoke out in opposition.
Rose said the right of Mandeville to speak and to disagree with the school administration "is not questioned" but he said "the serious nature of some of the reckless charges demand the faculty committee investigate into their truth or falsity."
When Fortune is fickle, the faithful friend is found.-Cicero
He said Germany now is the only major cause of trouble between East and West and a peace treaty on Russian lines was the only solution.
Meanwhile, the United States has prepared a new "White Paper" charging Khrushchev with wantonly manufacturing an artificial crisis in West Berlin.
It strongly indicts Khrushchev for refusing to let the inhabitants of Communist East Germany vote on their own future. It also rejects anew as immoral and illegal Khrushchev's demand that the United States, Britain and France pull out of West Berlin and permit it to become a demilitarized "free city" behind the Iron Curtain.
The President himself ordered preparation of the paper as another weapon in his effort to rally world opinion against Russia's effort to impose its own "solution" to the problem of Berlin and divided Germany.
Officials said the exact publication date had not been set but it might come this week.
The document's emphasis on German "self-determination" is designed particularly, officials said, to enlist support of the new Asian and African nations for the western position on Berlin.
The White Paper, which probably will be issued in pamphlet form, points out that West Berliners have voted overwhelmingly to let the allies remain there until there is a final settlement of the whole German problem. But the Russians have never permitted the inhabitants of Communist East Germany and East Berlin a free vote on their status.
The paper, following up the recent lengthy U. S. aide memoire to Khrushchev on Berlin, fits in with Kennedy's plan to try to seize the diplomatic initiative from the Russians while at the same time bolstering Western military might to provide a stronger bargaining position.
In other developments the U. S. army in Europe will begin tightening leave and pass regulations today to keep troops combat ready in view of Soviet threats against Berlin.
The regulations, announced in Heidelberg, will require all military personnel not on duty, leave or
special or overnight passes to return to their quarters by midnight on weekdays and by 1 a.m. on Sundays and holidays.
Reports reaching West Berlin said the East Germans are making it more difficult every day for refugees to flee the Iron Curtain, but they are getting through anyway.
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Despite roadblocks backed up by machine guns and tight police checks of railroad stations, refugees still are streaming in at the rate of about 1,000 a day to West Berlin.
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