Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we need to say, as American people, and say in unmistakable terms, is that we are right.We must tell the Russians why we cannot surrender Berlin. Let us not talk about standing firm, and then in mushy, soft words say that on some basis-somewhere, somehow-we will do something other than stand fast...
Before Russia's May 27 deadline on Berlin, diplomats may find a way to sidestep or postpone a repetition of the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. But U.S. military planners can risk no false hopes. They are ready with alternate sets of operations orders, have plans for every predictable contingency save one: evacuation of U.S. troops. The omission is not an oversight or a gamble. U.S., British and French forces are set to hold the city against all Communist pressures save an all-out attack, which, the Russians well know, would start World War III. In the cold logistics...
...occupation force in West Berlin totals about 4,000 men, mainly of the 6th Infantry Regiment, and the British and French account for the rest of an Allied garrison of about 11,000 troops. To supply them, the U.S. runs two to three convoys per week-three to ten trucks in each convoy-over the 110-mile, four-lane Autobahn between the border check point of Helmstedt, and Berlin (see map). The British send in about one convoy a week, and the French about one a month. The West Germans, in a thriving trade with 2,300,000 West Berliners...
...landlocked island of Berlin could, under Red siege, be reached reliably only by air, as during the historic "Operation Vittles" airlift of 1948-49. And this time, thanks to lessons learned in the first Berlin blockade, the U.S. has a vastly expanded capacity and know-how in the airlifting business...
Apart from talking straight from the shoulder on the Berlin crisis. President Eisenhower used his news conference last week to get on the record on three priority topics of the day. Items...