Word: howley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring was just around the corner. The U.S. Military Government felt the seasonal compulsion, and broke out with bright buds of optimism. First, Colonel Frank L. Howley, governor of Berlin's U.S. sector, heartily hailed the "unqualified success" of the joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...
...instance, when Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, British Military Governor, wants to see the Russian Military Governor, General Nikolai Baranov, he sends an officer to make the appointment a day in advance, then appears with several officers in his retinue. When his U.S. opposite number, Colonel Frank Howley, a lean, hard-working advertising man from Philadelphia, wants to see Baranov, he just walks...
Right after the meeting came cocktails. In his requisitioned Dahlem villa Colonel Frank L. Howley, military governor of Berlin's U.S. zone, threw a party for 100 Allied officers. The Russians, unaccustomed to cocktail protocol, drank on & on, stayed on & on-but no dinner was served. Tactful U.S. interpreters finally hinted that the party was over. General Gorbatov politely shook hands with all his fellow-guests, then led away the puzzled Russians...
...almost immediately a hitch developed. Four days later the U.S. military governor, Colonel Frank Howley, admitted to correspondents: "The Russians are running all of Berlin." Marshal Zhukov's Red Army officers continued to issue orders to all of Berlin's 20 borough heads, paid no attention to British and U.S. "authority...
...French in Cherbourg are deeply touched by the deference shown them. U.S. and British authorities are in turn impressed by the friendly efficiency of the French. Says Colonel Howley: "If the French elsewhere in France buckle down to the job of reconstruction as they have here in Cherbourg, leaving recrimination aside, France has a period of greatness ahead of her which even exceeds the past...