Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...112th day of the great airlift, while Russian artillery continued firing into the grey skies near Berlin by way of "target practice," the Western powers had an announcement for Berlin's people. The airlift was doing so well that Western Berlin's food rations would be boosted about 15%, from an average of 1,800 to 2,040 calories a day. That meant more cereal, fat, sugar, and-for the first time since war's end-cheese...
...import & export trade of those areas would henceforth be regulated by one centralized agency. That regulation meant the almost complete economic merger of U.S.-British Bizonia with the hitherto separate French zone. It was a firm answer to Russia, who, by putting on the screws in Berlin, is trying to make the West abandon Western German recovery...
...carefully guarded back room, behind the huge stage of Paris' Palais de Chaillot, representatives of six nations-Canada, China, Belgium, Argentina, Colombia and Syria-tried for over a week to work out a compromise on Berlin. (The press called them the "neutral nations," although they were all, as the Irish say, neutral against Russia.) The Russians still wanted the Berlin case thrown out of the U.N. Security Council...
...long silence in the council to snarl: "It is useless to think that the U.S.S.R. delegation will bite at this bait. It is naive to believe that the U.S.S.R. delegation will stick to the glue which has been spread over the piece of paper which is now called the Berlin question...
This week, the council will continue its deliberations without Russia's answer. Any resolution calling on Russia to lift the Berlin blockade was sure to run straight into a Russian veto. Said a visiting U.S. officer from Germany: "It's going to be a cold winter for the boys in Berlin...