Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military governor General Sir Brian Robertson slapped them down: "Stop complaining. Be thankful for what you have got. The Germans must understand that Germany's record has caused other countries to be nervous about her behavior in the future." The sanest German opinion was well expressed by a Berlin businessman: "Of course the politicians must cry out in anger-that is part of their professional duty. But we need a year before we can really tell how this will work...
...Russians got a special plum in their slice of the German capital-the world-famous, 139-year-old University of Berlin. Ever since the city was divided among the conquerors, non-Communist students and teachers have been trying to start a new university in the western sectors. Last week they had it. Its name: the Free University of Berlin...
...building materials and airlift coal-just about everything, in short, but the professors. Professors and instructors, however, were plentiful. They came, 134 so far, from all over Germany. Some of them are refugees from the Russian zone itself; twenty-three left well-paying jobs at the old University of Berlin. Among them is white-bearded, 86-year-old Historian Friedrich Meinecke, who became the new rector...
...after Christmas, the great Berlin airlift was six months old. By then, it had carried 700,000 tons of supplies to besieged Berlin. That meant an average of 3,800 tons in an average of 550 flights a day (one-third by Britain's R.A.F.). Last week, Air Secretary Symington said that in 1949, when new planes are put into operation, the daily total can be doubled. So far, 17 Americans and seven Britons have been killed in airlift accidents...
...grudging tribute came from Friedrich Ebert, Communist mayor of Berlin's Soviet sector. "They seem to have no lack of planes and pilots and gasoline," he said. "I live in Potsdam and hear the damned things roaring over the house all night...