Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month Berlin had been deceptively quiet, as though the antagonists, while not relaxing their holds, had paused for breath. Last week the silence was broken by a brass-lunged blast from Colonel Frank L. Howley, hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector. On New Year's Day, two or three U.S. officials telephoned their Russian opposite numbers to wish them a prosperous New Year. When he heard of this incident last week, Howley's quick-triggered temper exploded...
...Prosperous New Year-like hell! Instructions in the Russian army manual are not to mix with us except when essential to fulfill their missions. These days we aren't trying to help the Russians fulfill their missions." Howley promptly ordered all fraternizing with Russians in Berlin to stop, forthwith. Cried he: "None of my men are going to play footsie-wootsie with the Russians...
Miss Gilbert will describe projects of the Radcliffe NSA chapter, in particular the Tri-Nations Tour which the group is directing this summer. Earlier in the year NSA conducted a "soap and clothes" drive for the Free University of Berlin in coordination with Signature Magazine and sponsored a tea for International Students attending Radcliffe...
Exit: Bull? If it had, it did not stay long. The industrial averages rose to 193.16 before the baby bull, scared by the Berlin blockade, the threat of war, and a possible squeeze on profits, languished and died. On the election of President Truman the market fell 10.82 points in a week, the worst break since the spring of 1940. At year's end the averages were at 177.30, down slightly from the year's start, and Wall Streeters were more confused than ever on whether the market was bound up or down...
...world strategy, Korea can be more accurately compared to Berlin then to Greece. The area itself is important neither strategically nor economically. It has been, rather, a proving ground on which the United States attempted to show Asia that it could remake a Japanese territory into an independent, democratic nation. The comparative simplicity of the task undertaken by the American Military Government has permitted careful evaluation of the progress at each stop of the occupation. Briefly, General Hodge's assignment was; to eliminate Japanese control, reconstruct the economy, set up a democratic government, and get out. Unfortunately, the peoples...