Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiralspalast, on Friedrichstrasse in the Soviet sector of Berlin, is a traditional house of light opera. One night last week there was a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Czar's Bride. A few hours earlier, in the afternoon, the Communist lackeys of Russia put on a go-minute political show which might have been entitled The Rape of Berlin...
...With only the flimsiest pretense of democratic procedure, the Communists set up a "people's government" of Berlin. They repudiated the anti-Communist City Assembly, legally elected two years ago, and claimed authority over the whole city, although well aware that they would exercise it in the Soviet sector alone...
...Berliners called it the "opera government." General Lucius D. Clay, the U.S. commander, called it a "rump government" and refused to recognize it. The political division of Berlin into two cities, begun last June, was now complete...
White Cards. The Soviet action had been forced by circumstances. As provided by the Berlin constitution agreed on by the four powers after the war, new city elections were due to be held last Sunday. The Communists had taken a sore beating in the last elections (1946), winning only 20% of the popular vote and placing only 26 of their men on the 130-member Assembly. Now, with their prestige at its lowest ebb, they could not afford another free election. So Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky informed the Western commanders that Russia would boycott the Sunday elections; there would...
...Szymon Goldberg is not yet familiar to most U.S. concertgoers, but fanciers of fiddling have known it for years. They have willingly paid high prices for his imported records, though they could get U.S. recordings of better-known violinists for less. From Violinist Goldberg, who was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic at 20, they heard none of the showy virtuosity that often gets between a composer and his audience. The secret of Szymon Goldberg's art is not its showmanship but its selflessness...