Item COLD WAR 27/65 - Transcript of interview with State Department employee Martha Halloran Mautner, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Martha Mautner, relating to the ultimatum, by Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, to the western powers to withdraw from West Berlin, Nov 1958; the policy of US President Dwight David Eisenhower's administration towards the Berlin problem, 1958; the attempt by Khrushchev to achieve détente with the USA by removing the problem of Berlin, 1958; speculation on the possibility of a nuclear war between the USSR and USA over Berlin, 1958; the influence of Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor, Federal Republic of Germany, 1949-1951, and 1957-1963, on the US approach to Khrushchev's ultimatum, 1958; relations between the USA and the Federal Republic of Germany, 1958-1961; the summit meeting between Khrushchev and US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Vienna, Austria, Jun 1961; the Berlin Crisis, 1961; the deployment of US military reinforcements to West Berlin, 1961; the influx of refugees from East Berlin to West Berlin, 1961; the construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the leadership of Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, 1961; the slowness of the US response to the Soviet construction of the Berlin Wall, Aug 1961; the ordering of US troops to travel through the German Democratic Republic on the autobahn in order to reinforce West Berlin, 1961; the face off between Soviet and US tanks, Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Oct 1961; the visit to and speech by US President Kennedy to West Berlin, Jun 1963. 57pp