Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indicated yesterday he will bide his time with Congress before deciding whether to take issues to the people. He told a news conference he still believes a labor bill can be worked out without concessions to the opposition, and also expressed happiness over the Big Four agreement on the Berlin blockade lifting...
...week, the "foreign press" had indeed speculated feverishly on the Berlin situation. The Paris newspaper Figaro reported that a tall, dark, mysterious man, who was neither a diplomat nor a Russian, had gone to Washington to extend "feelers." U.S. newspapermen picked up many a remote sound and relayed it homewards...
Some of them recalled such a portent as Gromyko smiling at the U.N. Assembly's opening session. Others reported that Russian officers, after months of isolation, showed up at a U.S. Army cocktail party in Berlin and were pretty pleasant. France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman confirmed that U.S.-Russian talks had taken place-on the "corridor level...
...Russians were clearly eager to end the Berlin blockade. The fact that the bold, persistent Berlin airlift-and Berliners' dogged courage-had brought them to this point was a notable cold war victory for the West. But there was far more than that behind the Moscow statement...
...only thing standing in the way of another U. S. Russian meeting on lining the Berlin blockade is the simple matter of a telephone call, a State Department spokesman said yesterday...