Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Kremlin again went the three men from the West-Walter Bedell Smith of the U.S., Frank Roberts of Britain and Yves Chataigneau of France. They had agreed beforehand on a new proposal for "settling" the Berlin crisis. Smith had their plan in his briefcase. Stalin greeted them genially. Before Smith had a chance to open his case, Stalin said: "Gentlemen, I have a plan. Here it is. I believe you will find it acceptable to your governments." Stalin's plan was almost identical with the one Smith carried. The Russians and the West had reached an agreement...
...gist: the Western powers agreed to abandon the use in Berlin of their Western German money. Russian Zone money under four-power control would be used in Berlin...
...Russian sector into the British and U.S. sectors, Russian-sector police staged another raid on German black marketeers. A big crowd of Germans quickly gathered, burned Communist flags in the street, and tried to overturn a car suspected of containing a Red bigwig. Women shouted, "Get out of Berlin, you Communist bandits!" When the crowd stoned the raiders, the police answered with gunfire. Several Germans were wounded...
TIME'S Berlin Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled: "The week's pattern is continuing Soviet aggressiveness and continuing Western wariness. Observing the two lines of conduct is like watching a pair of dancers, one of whom is doing a delicate minuet while the other hurls himself into a hot apache number...
...result, which cast its shadow over Budapest last week, was probably far superior to the pink marble monuments the Reds have been building in Berlin, and certainly surpassed the obelisks, as characterless as paperweights, with which they have dotted Eastern Europe in the past two years. Instead of a tank, or a bust of Stalin, it featured a high-breasted, neoclassic lady holding a king-size palm leaf 42 feet above her bare bronze toes...