Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted to leave many times before, but President Truman had always kept him on. Now the time was appropriate. The blockade of Berlin was ending. The Western Germans were ready to form their own federal government (see INTERNATIONAL). In Clay's own words, "the punitive phases" of the Allied occupation were finished; the State Department was almost set to take over. Last week the President announced that General Clay would turn over his command next week to his deputies, Lieut. General Clarence Huebner and Major General George P. Hays, who would stand by until the State Department could move...
...General Clay looked back on his four grinding, controversial years as a 20th Century proconsul. A unified Germany, he thought, is now inevitable, but there must be another five to 20 years of gradually tapering Allied occupation. As for the Russians, he warned that an East-West agreement on Berlin should not be confused with "a permanent solution to the struggle between communism and democracy." Said Clay: "I don't think that implies war. War would never solve...
...history would probably weigh other factors. Lucius Clay had dominated the German scene by his firmness and boldness, and emerged as the rock-solid symbol of Western determination. Though his first fleeting reaction to the Berlin blockade was an impulse to ram through with an armored convoy, he had steered clear of blunders that could have brought a shooting war. With Russian capitulation on the Berlin blockade, the way to civilian control of the occupation was as clear as it would ever...
...Holy War." The first opposing witness seemed more apt to help than hinder final passage. Henry Wallace fidgeted and squirmed as he charged that the State Department had kept mum on Russia's offer to end the Berlin blockade for fear it would spoil the treaty's chances. (No one thought to ask him why the Russians took part in such a deal.) Henry Wallace rattled on. The treaty, he cried, was "not an instrument of defense but a military alliance designed for aggression." Furthermore, it was a deal backed by U.S. big business, the Roman Catholic hierarchy...
Sound trucks rolled through the streets, blaring out the news; the city's great ordeal was drawing to an end. Berlin's early skepticism thawed. The people finally realized that a victory had been...