Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also undecided last week was the matter of Berlin. Joseph Stalin (with no elections to worry about at home) jumped into that deadlock with an accusation. He said that the Western powers had welshed on a deal between Argentina's Juan Bramuglia and Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had a fine chance to tell the world that Stalin was a liar-and prove it. Instead, Jessup, using the palest diplomatese, gibble-gabbled: "If Stalin's reference to an agreed solution which subsequently was repudiated refers to any resolution agreed to by the three Western...
Question: "How do you regard the results of the discussion in the Security Council on ... Berlin...
...green-dyed Luftwaffe uniforms), were under arms. Probable commander of the "alert" force was German General Walther von Seydlitz,* survivor of Stalingrad and a key figure of the Moscow-sponsored Free Germany Committee. On the evening of Oct. 153 special Russian plane landed him at Johannisthal-Schbneweide airfield near Berlin; then he was whisked to Soviet military headquarters at Karlshorst...
...central administrative agency of the Soviet zone last July. In his 503, Fischer seems to most Germans to have the appearance of a typical Biedermann (Babbitt): neatly dressed, round-faced, with greying, slightly wavy hair. But Fischer was a veteran of the Communist Spartacist League, which ruled Berlin for ten days...
Just behind Fischer in the new police setup was the minister of the interior of Brandenburg Province, Bernhard Bechler. Still in his 40's (and a former major in the Nazi Eighth army at Stalingrad), Bechler was as yet little known outside Berlin; but Berliners had begun to call him "the new Himmler." Talking with fellow Communists, Bechler was succinct. Said he recently: "We have until 1950, at the latest, to liquidate the bourgeois parties. By that time, the state police will be trebled and so well trained that, with the help of them and of the armed action...