What’s the Context? Occupying Powers sign Quadripartite Agreement on Berlin, 3 September 1971
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The most that we can say is that we have made the best of a bad bargain, not that we have got a fair deal (Prime Minister Edward Heath, 1 September 1971) Fifty years ago, Ambassadors representing the 4 Occupying …