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...Need Latitude. Dean Acheson slipped off his spectacles, was ready for questions. They came fast from all sides. Would an attack on a Berlin airlift plane flying over the Soviet zone be considered an armed attack under the treaty? Acheson replied calmly that he thought that would be an attack on the occupation forces. "But if it occurs over the Soviet zone?" the reporter pressed. Acheson said it made no difference...
...shake-up." Molotov had been ousted. Vishinsky was Stalin's newest fair-haired boy. What it all meant was a tougher Soviet policy toward the West. On the other hand, what it really meant was a genuine peace move. The North Atlantic pact was a factor. The airlift was a factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate about a bill to provide analgesia...
That meant that the remaining 32 Tudors were grounded except for overland freight hops, experimental work and gasoline tanker duties on the Berlin airlift. The Civil Aviation Parliamentary Secretary gave a stark but realistic reason for the exceptions: "Those that have crashed have disappeared under the sea and there is no story to tell. If one crashes on land, there can be an examination of what is left of the aircraft, and those skilled in these matters may find some reason for the failure...
...Operation Crow was organized as a special U. S. airlift...
...expect," said General Lucius Clay last July, "to build the airlift up to 4,000 tons a day." Last week, airmen of the U.S. Air Force and Britain's R.A.F. set new airlift records and doubled the general's goal. On Washington's Birthday they landed one plane every 90 seconds, flew 7,513 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin. Next day, learning that the Russians were celebrating Red Army Day, airmen stepped up their load again, roared in with 7,897 tons. Two days later, with their holiday momentum still intact, they brought...