Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow this week announced that it was willing to lift the Berlin blockade-at a price. Moscow made two conditions: 1) the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers must meet again to discuss the question of a single currency for Berlin "together with other questions bearing on Germany;" 2) the Western Powers must lift their counter-blockade by which they have prevented trade between Germany's eastern and western zones...
...Moscow announcement specifically stated that Russia was willing to lift the Berlin siege before the foreign ministers convene, if & when a date for the conference could be set. In the past, the Russians had insisted they would lift the blockade only after the ministers had met and reached agreement...
...Moscow statement, wrapped up in a brief dispatch by the Tass news agency, noted coldly that various reports about a possible lifting of the Berlin blockade had been spread in the "foreign press." To refute incorrect rumors, Tass deemed it necessary to set down "the facts as they are." Russia's U.N. Delegate Yakov Malik and U.S. Delegate Philip Jessup had been conducting talks on the subject of Berlin. According to Tass, the first of these conversations had taken place last February, the last almost two weeks...
...planes streaked across the sunny sky over Berlin, a Soviet officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail...
...many parts of the world, the executioners' business is booming, but not in Germany. Since Hitler's fall, there has been a sharp recession in the head-chopping line; Gustav Voelpel, Berlin's executioner, has had only 30 calls to the block since the war. "At 1,000 marks a head," he says, "I can scarcely make both ends meet." Hard-pressed, Gustav decided that what he needed was a sideline to supplement his income. He apparently found one. Last week, obligingly wearing his formal professional attire for the benefit of photographers (see cut) Gustav appeared...