Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Karnow is no apologist for Administration adventurism in Central America, but, from a purely historical perspective, he argues convincingly that Vietnam is as weak a historical precedent for non-interventionism as the Berlin Blockade and the Cuban Missile Crisis were for the opposite...
...Dean Rusk, and said what was your mindset, what was your thinking, and he said. 'I was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford in 1933, and I was there at the Oxford Union that night when they voted not to fight for King and country. I could remember that the Berlin Radio used that the next day or the next week as a sign of how soft the British were and the British were ready to appease the Nazis, and I vowed then and there that we had to stop aggression whenever it took place...
...tapes, yet offer amenities (liner notes, opera librettos) similar to those of regular records. Already there are more than 800 titles available in the U.S. and even more in Europe and Japan. Among the best: Bizet: Carmen (Agnes Baltsa as Carmen, José Carreras as Don José, Berlin Philharmonic and Paris Opéra Chorus, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 3 CDs). Karajan's earlier Carmen, with Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli, was a full-throated spectacular in the grand-opera tradition. This one, 19 years later, reflects his current preference for smaller voices in an almost...
...allied in a great war. But Harry Truman, who sort of liked "old Joe" after Potsdam and tried to make him a pen pal, soon found there was not enough of a relationship to discourage Stalin from trying to consolidate his grip on Eastern Europe and starve out West Berlin...
...bits into a nightly broadcast. The Germans, proud of their blitzkrieg success in the early months of the war, offered mobile recording facilities. CBS refused, Shirer recalls with anger that is still raw, because of "an idiotic ruling" that all broadcasts must be entirely live. The British bombing of Berlin was live enough, and it came at the right time for Shirer's nightly 1 a.m. broadcast back to the States. But German censors shut off mention of the raids and installed a lip microphone that "did not pick up the roar of the antiaircraft batteries ringing Broadcast House...