Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin blockade ended yesterday. In another week and a half, the foreign ministers of the United States, France, Great Britain, and Russia, will meet in Paris "to consider questions relating to Germany." These two occasions could mean nothing, as far as the cold war is concerned, if there is no real meeting of East and West, if there is more wrangling and suspicion. Under those circumstances, the conference will break up, as have so many other conferences before it, and the battle for Germany will continue--only more bitterly than before...
...Russo-American relations are improving, that's great. But could this sudden outburst of brotherly love be somewhat influenced, perhaps, by the very firm stand of the Allies in Berlin, and by the extraordinary feat of the American air lift? It is a very common and tragic mistake to see in a change of tactics a change of strategy...
There were no cheers in Berlin last week. There were not even many smiles. During the ten months of grim siege, Berliners' hopes had been mocked too often by false rumors. Berliners would believe the news of the blockade's end when they saw trains and trucks rolling into Berlin again from the West...
Meanwhile, the Russians established some more contacts. Tommy-gun-toting German police from the Russian zone raided a farm on Berlin's outskirts on the British-Soviet line. They made off with 38 cows, 34 horses, twelve sheep, eight hogs, three typewriters, three telephones, a set of china. When three British MPs and two British-sector German cops protested, they were arrested. At week's end the three Britons were returned with apologies (the two Germans had escaped). But the Russians kept the plunder...
...over Berlin, the airlift planes still droned...