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...called striking "anticlimaxes" or aborted crises. These were moments in which history failed to turn a likely corner, failed to move in new directions. Think for example of the "might-have-beens" connected with such anticlimaxes as the unsuccessful assassination of Hitler on July 20, 1944, the Berlin Blockade of 1948, the soon vanquished East German uprising of June 17, 1953, even the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 However much we may lament or applaud the eventual denouement of these prospectively momentous watersheds, they did turn out somehow to be arrested turning points, fizzles...
WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL SPOKE of an iron curtain descending between East and West, he was referring to both a literal and figurative barrier. A decade after the speech, the Berlin Wall had been erected, tangibly separating Europe in two. But even as Churchill put forth his image, a symbolic partition was already in place, preventing the West from getting a good, hard look at the East. That partition, "built" after the Russian Revolution in 1917, remains as sturdy today as it was during the British war hero's time...
Wedemeyer, an Omaha boy, was one of the few men on the Allied side who had graduated from the German war college, the Kriegsakademie in Berlin. His study of geopolitics there convinced him that the key to power on the Continent was control of Eastern Europe. The only answer to Hitler, therefore, lay in building a superior war machine, then getting it across the ocean and into Germany as soon as possible. Wedemeyer wanted D-day to occur by early summer 1943, a year before the invasion of France actually took place...
...guerrillas were intent on repeating a psychological triumph of three weeks ago, when they occupied the virtually undefended provincial center of Berlin for three days, then retreated before the belated arrival of Salvadoran army reinforcements. U.S. officials in El Salvador discounted the showy guerrilla actions as armed propaganda exercises, producing results that were militarily worthless even though psychologically valuable. Nonetheless, as a senior American official admitted, "the guerrillas are getting better at what they're doing. They have better coordination, better timing between their operations...
Exactly a century ago, a young American studying engineering in Berlin paid $7.50 for his first camera. His name was Alfred Stieglitz, and the centennial of that impulsive purchase is worth celebrating. For in the intervening years, Stieglitz did more than anyone else to elevate photography from a curiosity or hobby to a respectable member of the visual arts. He did so both by example (his pictures were instantly recognized as transcendent) and by precept (he lectured, hectored and lobbied constantly on behalf of his crusade for the camera). He also established and ran galleries and magazines, and took...