Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps involvement in the very real complexities of cold war has blinded General Clay to other problems. If the Military Government has forgotten the reason that there is an American army in Germany, they must be reminded, and the rest of the world reassured. Congress should appoint a committee to investigate the entire punitive and denazification program. If the Congress does not act the President should create his own executive committee...
...With deep confidence in the Air Force's ability to keep the stuff moving in, General Lucius Clay and his people face the winter without evident qualms" (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Western envoys (Smith, Britain's Frank Roberts and France's Yves Chataigneau) took off for Paris where the U.N. General Assembly was about to meet. All the other principals converged on Paris-from Washington came Secretary of State Marshall, from London Ernie Bevin, from Berlin General Lucius Clay. The visitors were joined by France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The chief decision they would have to make was whether to continue the delightful talks with Molotov in Paris (if he should decide to come), or whether to throw the Berlin issue into the U.N. Assembly or Security...
...British were known to be hesitant about breaking off the talks with Molotov. The key to the situation was the question of whether the airlift (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) could continue, throughout the winter, to feed, warm and hold Berlin. That crucial question General Clay answered last week with a clear yes. He said he was sure that the airlift could not only provide Western Berlin with its necessities but sustain its economic life at pre-blockade level. With the possible exception of two tough winter months, he was convinced that "Operation Vittles" could be extended to flying in raw materials...
...General Clay was right, the West would look much like a poker player who started betting on a pair of deuces and found, on second glance, that he held a pair of aces...