Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin's people had been living mainly on the airlift's dehydrated potatoes, powdered eggs, powdered milk, dried vegetables and occasional cans of meat; this week they would get better food, and more of it. The blockade had shut down much of Berlin's industry, thrown 125,000 out of work. There had been only four hours of electricity a day; Berliners had lighted their homes with candles or gone to bed at sunset. The siege's end meant not only more food, more jobs and more light, but a relatively comfortable winter ahead...
Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's stalwart Socialist mayor, said: "Of course it's a good thing. I'm very happy. At last the Russians have climbed down. Now I hope they'll disappear from our midst." But everyone realized that the battle for the city would continue. East Berlin's Communist Party called for conferences to end the split in the city government. To this, Ernst Reuter retorted: "Work with those people-never...
...Last Trees. "Even the ruins of Berlin," TIME Correspondent Dave Richardson cabled this week, "are marked by the East-West conflict of the past eleven months. In past springs, stately chestnut and linden trees had spread a canopy of pink and white over the ruins. This year, street after street in Berlin is bare of trees. In the long hard winter of the blockade, Berlin's people had to decide whether to accept Soviet Russia's offer of coal or cut down their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree...
Britain's Ernie Bevin journeyed to Berlin last week to have a look at history. He said: "I want to get Europe settled for a couple of hundred years. I don't think it is beyond the realm of possibility. But it will take a lot of time, a lot of patience, a lot of work...
Ernest Bevin spoke the hope of millions of people who, having feared last year that the Berlin crisis might mean imminent war, now believed that the end of the Berlin blockade was at least the beginning of peace. In many quarters, the notion grew that the Russians were undertaking a strategic withdrawal from Europe. This attitude was balanced by a note of uneasy caution. Many observers found that by & large in their press and radio the Communists were being their usual difficult selves. Said U.S. Ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery: "The flowers of peace cannot be expected to bloom...