147. Editorial Note
On October 30 Chairman Khrushchev sent a 16-page letter to President Kennedy discussing Cuba, nuclear testing, Berlin, and China. On Berlin he repeated the arguments that he had made to Ambassador Kohler (see Document 133) and stated that it was time to eliminate this “hotbed of international tension in the center of Europe.” (Department of State, Presidential Correspondence: Lot 77 D 163) The full text of the letter is printed in volume VI.