Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Justice was not only red-faced, but flabbergasted. The little man had been trying to get back to Germany ever since publicity had ruined his effectiveness in the U.S. in 1946. (The U.S. preferred to jail him rather than let him loose to raise trouble in Berlin...
...point to a united Western Europe whose people, American observers believed, were now better off than at any time since 1914 (excepting a few short years of peak prosperity). That was perhaps the West's biggest asset. Wrote London's clear-eyed Economist: "If the victory at Berlin proves anything, it is that the way to deal with the Russians is to make stiff terms and to stick to them inflexibly . . . Firmness is now justified up to the hilt...
...Berliners were happy, but they did not 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...
...Words from the Sponsor. The huge red banner in the street below proclaimed "In the Soviet sector there is freedom." But on the platform of Friedrichstrasse station, which is in the Soviet sector, burly, hard-faced German cops of East Berlin's Communist-run police force hovered ominously on the edges of the crowd, eyeing the people as coldly as though they were a new consignment of concentration-camp inmates. An old Hausfrau with a shawl over her head stared defiantly back. Most passengers just waited in uneasy silence alongside their battered suitcases. These people were not running away...
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Hindemith conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Hindemith does not prove that composers are the best conductors of their own music, but this is still a notable performance of a fine work. Recording: good...