Word: airlift
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...merely agreements which do not register the existing facts." In the frosty, gloomy classrooms of the cold war, said the Secretary of State, the U.S. had learned this lesson well. There was Berlin, where the Russians spurned agreements and threw up the blockade, then backed down before the airlift and the West's show of strength. There was Greece, where Russia defied the U.N. to foment rebellion, then retreated before the persuasive weight of the Truman doctrine. There was Turkey, where relentless Soviet pressure was shut off by U.S. economic and military...
Berlin, uneasily quiescent since the airlift, had felt again the ruthless, unpredictable stranglehold of the Russians on its transport and western supply lines, and now asked: "What next?" And Western Europe, which seemed to be convalescing, was in some danger of running a temperature again. ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman, who usually walks with a salesman's buoyant tread, reported in Washington last week that a "single new incident" might cause European Communist movements to remobilize...
...When the airlift ended and the Americans left, the council cracked down, summoned to court some 200 of the people who had rented rooms to frauleins. Only 50 were actually sentenced, to four weeks in jail at the most. At last the Bonn government set all offenders free by amnesty. Last week a Bonn official explained that it was impossible to single out "individual crimes for something of which a whole town is guilty. The sleeping...
Wherever G.I.s were stationed the story was the same. They had money, the Germans needed it; prices soared and the black market and prostitutes flourished. But when the Berlin airlift brought 8,000 U.S. pilots and enlisted airmen to former Luftwaffe airfields in the neighborhood of the quiet old town of Celle (pop. 33,000), the city council was deeply shocked by changes in Celle's way of life...
...picturebook town with medieval houses and a ducal castle, Celle is about 20 miles from Hannover. It had kept its traditions even through the Third Reich. With the coming of the airlift, Celle's burghers found themselves thrust into an atmosphere of sex and schnapps. From all over Germany eager opportunists rushed to Celle to help make the G.I.s happy. Jazz bands filled the town with boogie-woogie. A hundred new bars opened up. Taxi drivers came from as far away as Hamburg to work in Celle. They took meters off, charged $5 to nearby Fassberg airport, where...