Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speakers are Isaiah Berlin, lecturer on Regional Studies, Albert Guerard, associate professor of English, and Alex Inkeles, lecturer on social Relations and associate at the Russian Research Center...
...German politicians at Bonn went into a huddle, announced that they would withhold "official" comment for several days. But it was already clear that the Socialists -who had made the loudest demands for a more centralized Western German state" -were bitterly opposed to the new agreement. Berlin's Socialist newspaper Sozial-demokrat called the statute's stringent restrictions on German sovereignty "reasons for sorrow...
...Unbelievably Better." This hostility was far from unanimous. Ernst Reuter, Berlin's hard-hitting Socialist mayor, just back from a trip to the U.S., said the agreement was "unbelievably better than anything we had expected after all those months." Christian Democrat Konrad Adenauer, president of the Bonn council, warned that "failure to reach agreement [at Bonn] would be a fiasco for the democratic idea and a catastrophe...
...mean that Labor was certain to be licked in 1950. It did mean that Labor would no longer find it easy to sell Britons Sir Stafford Cripps's austerity program (see below) as the only true high road to a new land of pie-in-the-sky. In Berlin, where the news reached him, Herbert Morrison put it mildly: "The situation is difficult, awkward and embarrassing...
Ernst Reuter, Lord Mayor of Berlin, visiting in New York, reassured the West that "We in Berlin never talk of war. We know there will be no war . . . Our common aim is only peace." However, "we live much too near the Soviet paradise to want to be incorporated...