Word: berlin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During these days & nights of increasing Soviet pressure, when the Communists are trying to suppress every democratic thought and every opinion diverging from theirs, during these days & nights of the unceasing roar of U.S. Skymasters supplying Berlin with food, the very last remainder of sympathy for Fascism has died...
Many friends have expressed the same thoughts . . . The air bridge may be expensive, but it's the pipeline through which democracy is flowing into Berlin...
WOLFGANG HAEUSSLER Berlin...
...chapter was to be found in Moscow, where Russian obduracy had blocked all attempts to relieve the siege of Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL). Another appeared in the testimony before a congressional committee of a onetime U.S. Communist, who declared that she had been bribed and decorated by Moscow for spying on the U.S. while the two countries were wartime allies. In London, a handful of Czech and Hungarian athletes expressed their feeling for their conqueror by refusing to return home after the Olympics and seeking asylum in Britain...
...their first talks with Molotov and Stalin, the Western envoys had proposed: 1) immediate and unconditional lifting of the Berlin blockade; 2) recognition of Soviet money as exclusive currency in all of Berlin; 3) renewed discussions by the Council of Foreign Ministers on a peace treaty for Germany...