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...Unlike Quintilius Varus, who lost his Roman eagles when surrounded in the Teutoburg Forest of Germany, this distinguished general raised his American eagles to heaven. When ringed in Berlin by the might of Russia, and in an epic destined to live long in American annals, known as the Berlin Airlift, he dropped manna from heaven to the cause of freedom...
...plunge-a blockade of the railways, canals and Autobahn which are West Berlin's lifeline to the West. There was no noticeable hoarding of groceries (the city has three to six months' supply on hand), no flight of capital to West Germany, almost no talk of another airlift (although there are plans in U.S. files). In garden plots where they had grown potatoes last time, West Berliners were growing flowers...
...Reds, and got his reward: today he is the captive Premier of Communist East Germany. But he took only a tiny splinter of Socialists with him. Schumacher and Ernst Reuter, now the strong-minded Socialist mayor of West Berlin, stood their ground. As much as the allied airlift of 1948-49, that Socialist resistance saved West Berlin for democracy. "No matter what we think of Schumacher now," a U.S. official confessed last week, "we will gladly pay him tribute for having been right about the Russians at a time when we were dead wrong...
German Allies. The airlift, Korea, and the arrival of 2,500 Iron Curtain refugees brought the cold war to Pforzheim. From on high came a new occupation policy: recruit the Germans as allies. "Our so-called war criminals must be released before we can join the West," objected an ex-Wehrmacht colonel. Lascoe got U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy to come down to Pforzheim to talk to the town's leaders at an informal buffet supper (one dish: corn on the cob). They still had misgivings...
Triumph of Strength. The President smoothly cited other instances where U.S. strength-and presidential determination -had triumphed over Soviet scheming: in thwarting Communist attempts to take over Greece and Turkey, in saving Berlin by the great airlift. Now, he said, the U.S. is trying to arm the NATO countries, to prevent Koreans from being shot in the back-things that can only be done with the benefit of all-out steel production. He had simply tried to meet the emergency...