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Berliners and West Germans know that only token defenses stand between them and the threat from the East. Under the circumstances, it is not surprising that many Germans (and other Europeans) are profoundly discouraged and defeatist. West German morale soared during the Berlin airlift, plummeted when the West failed to take advantage of its moral victory. Morale flashed up again last June when the U.S. promptly and decisively accepted the Communist challenge in Korea. But it dropped again when U.S. battle defeats, added to appeasing statements from Washington, cast doubt on the U.S. determination to make a firm stand against...
Blockade & Airlift. It was an uphill battle. But Reuter's position was sound in the light of subsequent events. His position today as one of the top three West Germans is the result of the clarity of his thinking and the staunchness of his principles...
Such determination, and the determination of the Berliners that it typified and toughened, brought results. The U.S. and Britain mounted the huge and magnificent airlift effort. While the struggle raged in the air, it also crackled on the ground. In August 1948 Communist hooligans raided the City Hall, which was in the Soviet sector. As they burst in on Reuter, he waved them away: "Can't you see I've got work to do?" When the City Hall finally became untenable, Reuter led the municipal administration (minus the Communists) to Western Berlin. The split of the city into...
...Prescott, 37, the hustling Tiger president, put it: "We've had to get our development money wherever we could find it." Prescott found it by flying anything, anywhere, at any time, from railroad wheels and loads of gravel to globe-girdling tours for college students, and the Pacific airlift (TIME, Aug. 21). Other jobs...
...Airlift. Less than three years after the peace, when everyone else was loosening up their military girdles, LeMay found himself running the Berlin airlift as chief of U.S. air forces in Europe. One day a C-54 pilot at Frankfurt felt a heavy hand on his shoulder, looked up into the Old Man's three stars. "Son, I'll take this load," said LeMay. "Go and tell your dispatcher-and if he lets the other end know I'm coming he'll get hell from me." LeMay flew into Berlin, unloaded, then took his place...