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W7est Berlin, an island of freedom in Soviet East Germany, lost a little of its opportunity to strike back if another Berlin airlift is ever necessary. Because nearly all of Germany's trunk railroads converge like spokes into the hub of Berlin, the Allies have always wielded a sort of railroad veto over Red Germany. Last week the Russians canceled out the veto by completing the last link of a 100-mile bypass railroad circling Berlin, all in Soviet territory. Their 15-mile link to a long-planned loop took nearly a year, required 5,000 laborers...
...Roosevelt spirit was more self-assured when King attended another Cummins seance in 1948. "The President told Mr. King to watch Asia-that's where the danger lay," Miss Cummins told Fraser. "The Berlin airlift which was a focus of attention then was a side issue, a Soviet bluff. There was no mention of Korea by name, but F.D.R. did say he thought there'd be war in the Far East within two years...
Britain ordered her tough, desert-hardened Suez garrison to stand fast, and alerted reinforcements in Cyprus. The R.A.F. laid plans to airlift supplies to Suez in case of emergency. Would fighting break out in Egypt? Not unless "somebody else" starts it, said British Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison...
...pursuing the cold war. When the Russians tried to drive the allies out of Berlin with the 1948 blockade, Truman summoned a Sunday afternoon session and said that "we were going to stay, period." But there had been no advance planning for the crisis. The happy solution of the airlift was never even suggested at the first conferences; it grew into a policy because the military men in Berlin had the good sense to get it started...
...three people to whom I can never say no -my wife, Henry Stimson and George Catlett Marshall." Half the time Lovett ran the department while Marshall was away in Europe. In 1948 Lovett was quick to see the implications of the Russian blockade of Berlin, strongly backed the Berlin airlift as a counterchallenge. A few months later he saved Harry Truman from a major diplomatic blunder. The President was all ready to go on the air and announce that he was sending Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow to reason with Stalin. Lovett heard about the plan, telephoned General Marshall...