Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stability & Peace. Though Russia had attempted to snuff out these gains by clamping down on Berlin, "the Soviet planners," said Clay, "failed to recognize our strength in the air . . . The airlift to Berlin is not a makeshift operation. It is a well organized, efficient and precisely timed operation which can provide the minimum essentials for the people of Berlin indefinitely . . . Our airmen . . . have not wavered in bad weather; nor in the face of contemptible threats...
...headlines last week told of the seemingly irreducible deadlock between East & West at Berlin (see below). The breaking of that deadlock depended, in the long run, on which side was stronger. Beneath the headlines, the week's less spectacular news contained some highly significant indications that the balance of strength between East & West was continuing to shift. The shift was in the West's favor...
...that he will succeed where others have failed. Argentina's Juan Bramuglia was no exception. Nervously chain-smoking his black Argentine cigarettes, he spent two weeks shuttling back & forth between the Soviet Embassy and the headquarters of the Western delegations, trying to work out a compromise for the Berlin crisis...
...Little Six" compromise draft suggested that the Russians end the Berlin blockade immediately, and that the Berlin military governors start working out ways & means of establishing the Russian mark as Berlin's only currency, under four-power control. The Western Allies accepted this proposal and agreed to drop their demand for a Security Council vote censuring Russia...
...pausing on its way to flick an invisible speck of dust from its owner's black suit, sharply stabbed the air. "We cannot accept . . ." said Vishinsky. It was Russia's 28th veto. Said the U.S.'s Philip Jessup: "In the judgment of the world . . . if the Berlin question is not settled . . . the responsibility of failure will rest squarely and unavoidably on the government of the U.S.S.R...