Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that leadership was the act of voting in a democratic election and of proving to the world that democracy works-in all kinds of wind and weather. For it was important for the world to know that the nation which had conceived the Marshall Plan and created the Berlin airlift could change its own leadership at home without altering its concept of freedom or changing its will for peace...
Facts & Figures. Brisk and beaming at an early morning press conference, General Clay scattered the good news like bird shot. In Western Germany, he said, "there has been an almost unbelievable recovery." The airlift into beleaguered Berlin, he said, now carried 5,000 tons of food and fuel a day during good weather and 3,000 "under very bad conditions." This would be enough to keep Berlin supplied through the winter; besides, he had wangled 66 additional C-54s for the airlift (see Armed Forces...
Stability & Peace. Though Russia had attempted to snuff out these gains by clamping down on Berlin, "the Soviet planners," said Clay, "failed to recognize our strength in the air . . . The airlift to Berlin is not a makeshift operation. It is a well organized, efficient and precisely timed operation which can provide the minimum essentials for the people of Berlin indefinitely . . . Our airmen . . . have not wavered in bad weather; nor in the face of contemptible threats...
...true that the airlift is expensive in terms of dollars. Measured in terms of prestige, measured in the courage which it has brought to millions of people who desire freedom, measured indeed in comparison to our expenditures for European assistance and to our expenditures for national defense, its cost is insignificant. It can, it must, be continued until there is a stability in Europe which assures peace." General Clay did not try to guess when that time would come. But last week he thought he could see the light at the end of the tunnel. Said he: "There...
Between Two Fires? The airlift's destination suggested that the Legion might be turning its attention for the moment to Honduras, where Dictator Tiburcio Carias had just won a carefully staged election...