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Again the Russians turned down the screws. Last week they slapped a toll on all West German passenger cars and trucks traveling the 103-mile stretch of Autobahn through Soviet-controlled territory that connects Western Germany with Berlin. The toll ranged from $2.40 to $36, depending on size and type of vehicle. Stated reason for the road levy: East Germany needs money for the upkeep of the Autobahn...
...Reds reversed themselves last week after three months of refusing to yield up R.A.F. Pilot John Driver and Sapper John Bennett (TIME, Nov. 27), unless the British surrendered Russian Lieut. Alexandre Bystrov. Without explanation, Driver and Bennett, who had accidentally fallen into Russian hands, were released at Autobahn checkpoints. Driver headed back to Britain; Bennett rejoined his unit. Bystrov, a political refugee, stayed, safe in the British zone...
...make frequent trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...
Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...
...dance in the streets. A few hundred, with garlands of lilac and forsythia, waited quietly under a bright moon to welcome the first motor traffic from the free West. That honor went to U.S. correspondents, who staged a pressmen's circus, racing their cars along the Autobahn (and into the headlines back home). Next day was a school holiday, and the black, red & gold flag of the old Weimar Republic, now the banner of the new West German state, flew everywhere-20,000 flags had been shipped in by Allied airlift. The airlift planes still droned on, piling...