Item COLD WAR 27/41 - Transcript of interview with diplomat Robert Bowie, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Robert Bowie, US National Security Council Policy Planning Staff, 1953-1957, relating to the US policy of containment against the perceived Soviet threat, 1953-1957; the relationship between US President Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961, and John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State, 1953-1959; the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany and incorporation into the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, 1954; the East Berlin uprising, 17 Jun 1953; the creation of a neutral Austria, 1955; the US reaction to the death of Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin, 5 Mar 1953; the 'solarium symposium', discussions within the Eisenhower administration on US relations with the USSR and the East European satellite countries, [1953]; the summit conference between US President Eisenhower and Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Geneva, Switzerland, Jul 1955; the denunciation by Khrushchev of the Stalin cult and the excesses of Stalinism at the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party, Moscow, USSR, Feb 1956; the Suez crisis, 1956; the Berlin Crisis and the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1961; the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct 1962. 45pp