Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Times as Much. The conference's opening session got under way. With remarkable speed, the Ministers agreed on a four-point conference agenda proposed by the West: 1) problems of German unity, including "economic and political principles" and Four-Power control; 2) Berlin, including the currency question; 3) preparation of a peace treaty for Germany; 4) consultation on a peace treaty for Austria (the Foreign Ministers' deputies have vainly tried to draft an Austrian treaty for the past 2½ years). Vishinsky also suggested that a peace treaty for Japan be taken up, but Acheson countered that...
Barely a week after the lifting of the Berlin blockade, the city echoed to the blast of gunfire and the shouts of angry mobs. Trouble started over the fact that Berlin's city railways and elevated lines, which are controlled by the Russians, paid their workers in East zone marks, although most live in the Western sectors. Those workers wanted their wages in West marks (the only legal tender where they live, and four times the value of the East marks). Last week, 16,000 workers of the non-Communist Independent Railway Workers Union walked...
...Soviet-run German railway authorities thought they knew what to do about that; they ordered strikebreakers into action. Armed trains bearing police reinforcements and carloads of young Communist shock troops began to pour into West Berlin elevated and railroad stations. The strikebreakers barricaded themselves inside a dozen Berlin stations...
...Cannot Fight On." West Berlin's mayor begged the U.S., British and French to let Western police take over the protection of all railways in their sectors. U.S. Brigadier General Frank L. Howley called the Western commandants into session to discuss what he called an "intolerable situation." To avoid international complications just before the Paris Big Four meeting, the commanders hedged. Western police, they decided, could intervene only to restore order when individual fights got out of hand...
...hundreds of strikebreakers and guards, seemed in no mood to give in to their demands. Said Union Official Christian Hanebuth: "We cannot fight on physically against their guns." But next day, 3,000 strikers and their sympathizers went right on fighting, tried to storm the railway station at the Berlin Zoo. Communist police fired on them, killing a 16-year-old boy. British authorities sharply demanded the withdrawal of the Red railway police. Cried one strike leader: "Be patient, fellows . . . We are reaching our goal...