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...polls the people had recorded a smashing defiance of Communism (TIME, Dec. 13). Colonel Frank Howley, the hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector, welcomed West Berliners to "a place in the free world of men and women"-but warned them that further sacrifices were in store. In a formal statement from Washington, the State Department said: "The Berlin population has . . . demonstrated a type of civic courage which has won for it the admiration of the democratic peoples of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Sunshine | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...commandant, Colonel Frank Howley-a rock-jawed Irishman-issued a bold appeal: "Berliners, show your courage . . . There are evil forces at work . . . whose sworn and ordered mission is to create chaos . . . The people of Berlin will not be permitted to starve." Unfortunately, Howley could not tell them exactly how they would be fed. Western Berlin depends for the most part on 2,000 tons of food a day brought in by rail from Bizonia, 100 miles away-more than could be supplied by the cargo planes which the U.S. and Britain were able to press into immediate service last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: They Can't Drive Us Out | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds in his chair and looked blank and bland while U.S. Representative Colonel Frank Howley crisply replied. Then Kotikov would read another rehearsed document on a totally different subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: On a Sandy Plain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Although the General's press outburst violated a basic Allied directive (which forbids the German press to publish material calculated to provoke trouble among the Allies), the U.S.'s Colonel Frank Howley had no choice but to reply in kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Forecast | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...Colonel Howley and his British opposite number, Brigadier W. R. N. Hinde, have stuck to their guns, and refuse to approve the union election procedure until it provides for a fair, democratic election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Forecast | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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