Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the Russians imposed their blockade last spring, a troublesome currency situation has existed in West Berlin. The Western Allies permitted the use of the Russians' East marks as legal tender alongside the West's own currency. In their own half of Berlin, the Russians had shown no such liberal attitude. Western currency was strictly banned. Since Berliners had more confidence in the Western than in the Eastern currency, West marks last week were worth four times as much as East marks. But people in West Berlin had to accept the East mark for wages, rent...
...these inequalities, the Western Allies announced that the East mark was no longer legal tender in West Berlin...
...move cheered most Berliners. It proved once more that the West was in Berlin to stay. Announcing that the airlift would be stepped up once more, the U.S. commander, Brigadier General Frank Howley, declared last Sunday: "Tomorrow is the first day of spring. Neither the Soviet blockade at the Elbe nor winter's ice or snow have kept food, medical aid and coal from coming into the city. Attempts to scare the population have failed ... It must be clear even to the densest and most ill-willed Communists that their tactics are not succeeding...
...vast majority of U.S. gallerygoers had never seen such a collection before and never would again. They had been making the most of the world art masterpieces which once hung in Berlin's Kaiser Friedrich Museum...
...close of the Toledo exhibition next week the collection will start on its road back. The Department of the Army will ticket it for Wiesbaden, in the U.S. zone, but it will not go back to the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin-at least not for the present. This is not so much because of the difficulty of shipping art by the airlift as because the Army still holds the paintings "in trust for the German people." As matters now stand, Berlin is a poor place to lodge such a trust...