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...free food was the most successful U.S. diplomatic stroke in Europe since the Berlin airlift. Disturbed and angered, the East German Communists tried every way they could think of to blunt it. Their newspapers warned of retaliation against all who accepted the free food. "No one," thundered the Communist Neues Deutschland, "who falls into the trap of the warmongers in West Berlin can later say, when they get him into trouble, that he did not know it." They said that the food was poisoned, that a lot of it was horse meat intended for dogs. They forged copies...
Molly's Offensive. As Foreign Minister, Molotov has made his mistakes, some of them thumping big ones. He misread Tito, lost the airlift battle of Berlin, mis judged U.S. reaction to the invasion of South Korea. Above all, he and his "fellow Politburocrats allowed the nakedness of Communist aggression to alert the West to rearm. To undo that "error" is now the principal external target of Russia's peace offensive...
...Zhdanov and his followers seem to have sold Stalin on a Europe First policy that brought the tide of Soviet power to its maximum westward penetration: Czechoslovakia, seized in a Communist Putsch in February 1948. But in their year of victory the Zhdanovites suffered two reverses: Tito defected, the airlift saved Berlin...
THERE was a time when everybody in West Berlin was a hero. That was during the Russian blockade, when the allies with their airlift and West Berliners with their quiet solidarity and their brave mixture of patience and humor broke the siege and made fools out of the Communists. But day by day, in the four years since, West Berlin has been living under another kind of Communist siege, encirclement and calculated harassment. Nobody finds himself a hero any more. The drip treatment has left its mark on the once jaunty spirit of West Berliners...
...Airlift, Fork-Lift. The Kidders helped to pay for a two-room addition to the Johnson house. Barbara Johnson Kidder had learned at the Mary MacArthur Center how to care for her husband. Last fall, everything was set. The National Foundation shipped out a rocking bed, a wheelchair, an iron lung, a portable respirator and oddments of other equipment. It arranged with the Military Air Transport Service to fly Kidder west. He made the trip in an iron lung (by a roundabout scenic route), with MATS supplying a forklift to heft him in & out of the plane's extra...