Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that it was the actual turning point of the war. Theodor Plievier, a German left-wing writer who made his reputation in the 1920's with violent attacks on militarism and imperialism, wrote "Stalingrad" during the war, presumably in Russia and with Soviet blessing. The book was published in Berlin shortly after the end of the war, and has since sold over a million copies in Germany alone. Although it is slightly slanted to glorify the Russian Army and was extremely useful as anti-Nazi propaganda, it is still the only book of any note which describes any part...
...fish & chips stand instead of the polling booth. At Southampton, the Queen Elizabeth, free at last of the dockers' strike and loaded with 1,600 passengers itching to be on the go, was unable to cast her moorings. Parisians could see scarcely 30 yards ahead. In Berlin the airlift was halted for 15 hours, and in Denmark harbors, fishing smacks rolled blindly and helplessly at anchor. Even in London's deep Underground last week there were wispy traces of the fog that hung heavy and motionless over some 500 miles of Europe...
Through the recommendation of Seymour Bolten 1G, Eliot Hall has sent a Christmas package to Willy Brandt, official representative of the Social Democratic party in Berlin...
Brandt, exiled from Germany in the middle '30's, worked in the underground during the war, and now acts as liaison officer between the military government and political authorities in Berlin...
...Brandt's case the CARE package costs $12.50. The package has to go through the Berlin air-lift...