Khrushchev signs separate peace treaty with GDR

So suppose Khrushchev does follow through with his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with the GDR? Assuming that the East German officials then allow the Western Allies the same access to West Berlin that the USSR did, it's hard for me to see the US starting a third world war over the identity of the officials who stamp the transit documents. (Even John Foster Dulles briefly flirted with the "agency theory"--that the US would just regard the East German officials at the checkpoints as agents of the USSR. In other words, basically, pretend that nothing had changed... https://books.google.com/books?id=XEPKTdIFm-IC&pg=PA122)
 

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So suppose Khrushchev does follow through with his threat to sign a separate peace treaty with the GDR? Assuming that the East German officials then allow the Western Allies the same access to West Berlin that the USSR did, it's hard for me to see the US starting a third world war over the identity of the officials who stamp the transit documents. (Even John Foster Dulles briefly flirted with the "agency theory"--that the US would just regard the East German officials at the checkpoints as agents of the USSR. In other words, basically, pretend that nothing had changed... https://books.google.com/books?id=XEPKTdIFm-IC&pg=PA122)
You're giving the answer yourself: The West can do nothing about the USSR signing such a document, the USSR can do nothing about the West declaring it null and void. It's just slightly more de-jure to OTL de facto.
 
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