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was contingency planning about what to do in the event of Soviet interference but this, as I recall, did not take place.

A final note I was British ambassador in Warsaw when the communist regimes in Eastern Europe collapsed, the Wall came down and shortly afterwards the two Germanys became one again. Having been a junior diplomat when the Wall went up, I was and remain glad to see that something had gone right in that part of our world.

Sir Stephen Barrett

Above: A tour of the Wall in the Wedding district of Berlin, September 1961. Below: Checkpoint Charlie/Friedrich Strasse, December 1961 (Allied Museum Berlin/© US Army).