Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first efforts of the four Allied zone commanders to alleviate the Berlin crisis at the "working level" resulted in complete breakdown-so complete that immediate suspicion arose that the Russian commander, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky, was merely stalling. While the Berlin talks were going on, the Communists tried crassly and unsuccessfully to increase their stranglehold on the city (see below...
...German capital and its people last week came the most violent and perhaps the most fateful days since Red armies three years ago blasted their way across the Tiergarten, littered with uniformed corpses. After watching the Berlin scene last week, TIME'S Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled...
...whine of bullets echoed in the hollow ruins. Deep in the Russian sector, Red mob violence had finally pushed Berlin's government to the city's Western half. But on this side, the people rose some 300,000 strong to shout their defiance of the Reds in one cf the greatest voluntary mass meetings in German history...
...such show of popular force had been seen in Germany since 100 years ago, when the people of Berlin took to the same streets to fight the royal troops. In 1948 they were without revolutionary leaders, but they had one great unifying purpose-freedom from Red tyranny. Momentously, the weight and voice of the German masses was coming into play in the battle between East and West. There was enough mass power in the Berlin throng to change the fate of Europe...
That was the way the people's leaders felt this day, too. They had few original phrases to add to what had been said often before. But the words had a new and bolder meaning, and the people cheered. Said Ernst Reuter simply: "He who surrenders Berlin surrenders a world, surrenders himself." Gustav Pietch, railroad labor leader, bellowed hoarsely: "The blockade has failed, and now the Communists can only wait for the help of General Hunger and Generalissimo-" (here he paused long enough for the crowd to expect to hear "Stalin") "-Winter." Pietch concluded: "Again they will fail...