Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it stands in Berlin's U.S. sector, the big red brick building that houses Berlin's railway administration is occupied by Russians. One night last week small groups of striking transport workers sidled up to the building. At the entrance they disarmed two guards, rushed inside. While some strikers brandished guns at a door (see cut) behind which Russians were barricaded, 200 other strikers stampeded through the building, tore pictures of Lenin and Stalin from the walls. Only when four Russian officers, enraged by this desecration, screamed " 'Raus, 'raus!" (Out, out) and beat down...
Acheson, who has a keener sense for conference table tactics than either George Marshall or James Byrnes, frankly stated the U.S. position: "We are in Berlin by virtue of international agreements...but more fundamentally we are there on account of power and force and the successful prosecution of the war...We are in Berlin not merely to administer the city but to be in Berlin...
Acheson's proposition: 1) citywide free elections for a provisional Berlin government; 2) re-establishment of the four-power Kommandatura with each nation's veto power restricted to security matters only. When Acheson suggested that the ministers talk about it behind closed doors, Vishinsky agreed...
...first secret session on Berlin, Vishinsky's manner was agreeable, and he seemed willing to discuss a compromise. On the second day, Vishinsky stiffened. He conceded four-power supervision of free elections for a municipal council, but he wanted to rob the council of all real power by putting it under the veto-bound four-power Kommandatura. By week's end, Vishinsky had conceded a slight limitation of the four powers' veto in the Kommandatura, but the West wanted to abolish the veto entirely, except for security matters, and leave the Berliners' own government wide powers...
Snakes' Chase. Even so, the critics could find nothing but good in Rudi Bing's reputation. He had learned the opera business from the ground up -in Vienna, in Berlin, and since 1934 in England. He was well aware that "the artistic and commercial ends of opera management chase each other like a snake biting its own tail." He was hopeful about the unions. During the war, when Glyndebourne shut up shop, he had worked his way from clerk to the front office of a London department store. "I got on all right with the shop assistants; perhaps...