Word: airlifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the late Socialist Mayor Ernst Reuther in the days of the 1949 airlift, Socialist Willy Brandt had come to tighten that mutual reliance between Americans and Berliners. His method, beyond talks with President Eisenhower and other Washington brass: a Meet the Press TV appearance, a banquet hosted by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, luncheons with New York businessmen, press conference and dinner in Los Angeles (whence he flies on around the world). In the growing tradition of nondiplomat diplomacy, Mayor Brandt came not at the invitation of the U.S. Government but to be feature speaker this week...
...through to Berlin, even as a last resort, brought British Ambassador to Washington Sir Harold Caccia hustling into the State Department with a hard denial that Britain had done any such thing. Soviet radar jamming devices now all but rule out an easy repetition of the electronics-backed Berlin airlift, but the British feel that public discussion of blockade-busting devices should be confined to airlift talk. Behind the scenes, the British government has agreed in principle to the use of an armored column if necessary; in return, the U.S. has scaled down the size of the ground forces...
...sides recognize, of course, that the dispute over Berlin involves not only the former capital, but also the unification of Germany and the whole question of European security. The 2.2 million West Berlin residents deserve to have their precarious freedom maintained, and the preservation of this freedom by the Airlift a decade ago was one of the most inspiring Western actions in the Cold...
...brothers supported the Berlin airlift and U.S. entry into the Korean war, but when Red China intervened in Korea, they urged that the U.S. pull back, suggested that Korea might be "strategically futile," feared that a major effort there would leave Europe exposed. They stood against U.S. intervention in Indo-China in 1954, and this year opposed U.S. action in Lebanon: "The whole Arab world [will be] inflamed against us." Their present position on Berlin is discursive, but on the side of the West's remaining in West Berlin...
...Ernst Reuter of blockade-days' fame, let it be known that his government has stashed away six months' supplies of fuel, food and medicine, valued at $180 million. If it came to a showdown, there were always the three air lanes from the West along which the airlift planes once shuttled, and along which Pan American, Air France...