Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western powers was centered on Germany. Washington last week was pervaded by an urgent conviction that the disagreements between Britain, France and the U.S. which have stymied and confused Western policy in Germany must be resolved. One high U.S. official read the report of Emmet Hughes, TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief, on the state of Germany (TIME, April 4), and commented: "It's all too true...
Ernest Reuter, the Lord Mayor of blockaded Berlin, came to Washington to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors and was cordially greeted by Vice President Alben Barkley. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, stepped ashore from the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth, looking pale and tired but still smoking a big cigar, and still eyeing the world with lively attention. He was picketed by left-wingers in Manhattan, but to most U.S. citizens he was still a brave and oaklike figure-the man who, in Fulton, Mo. on his last visit to the U.S., had called-dramatic attention...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes spent the past month touring Western Germany to size up the nature of the crisis the Washington conference must try to meet. His report...
...Berlin, Brigadier General Frank Howley, commandant of the American zone, had to be patched up for minor cuts about the face. An unidentified civilian tried to crash the party given by some correspondents to celebrate Howley's promotion from colonel. Before he was given the bum's rush, the crasher threw his drink, glass & all, into Howley's face...
...stated that the Berlin Air Lift has so far been successful in maintaining our position in Europe, but pointed to the danger of the growing "Kremlin-controlled Communist Empire" in India and Asia. Churchill then warned again of the power of "these 13 men in the Kremlin," whose power he called "quite as wicked but in some ways more formidable than Hitler...