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...Berlin, the airlift planes droned on, balking the Reds' attempt to starve the city. The Chinese Communists marched toward Nanking...
...Braun figured, would take two years and 239 days. The fuel required for the project, including establishing the satellites: 5,356,600 tons. Von Braun admitted that this is a lot of fuel, but he pointed out that one-tenth as much was burned up during the Berlin airlift "just because of a little misunderstanding among diplomats." He hoped that when mankind enters the cosmic age, "wars will be a thing of the past . . . and people will be ready to foot the fuel bill for a voyage to our neighbors in space...
...accompanied by "certificates of origin" showing the sources of all raw materials used in their manufacture. Last week, with 12,000 tons ($17 million worth) of export goods piled up in West Berlin, the West met this new threat to Berlin's reviving economy with:1) a new airlift in reverse, 2) a trade embargo between West Germany and the Communist Eastern zone...
Under contract to the West Berlin city government, four-engine U.S., British and French commercial aircraft began flying 100 tons of freight daily from Berlin to the west. Prospects were that unless the Russians dropped their demand for "certificates of origin," this "baby airlift" might be reinforced with military aircraft. At the same time, along the 500-mile curtain between East & West Germany, western border guards halted all freight, depriving the Soviet zone of a daily inflow of $238,000 worth of western goods, among them badly needed iron and steel products. Backed by the Allied High Commission, the Bonn...
Through the Truman speech and through much American and U.N. thought runs the fear of provoking the Reds. No man can be absolutely certain that some U.S. action (such as the Berlin airlift) will not some day anger the Communists into starting World War III. But the evidence-and there is a great deal of it-all runs the other...