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...Ja & Nein." As the train picked up speed, the city of Berlin rolled by, glittering under the bright afternoon sun. All along the route, Berliners waved and grinned up from the rubble and their potato patches. From the hard wooden seat in her compartment, Marie Goebel waved and smiled back. A white-haired old lady, Fräulein Goebel was proud as punch of being a Berliner. "In Berlin," she said, "the people are livelier. There's something about Berlin that makes you feel ten or 20 years younger...
...train chugged through Potsdam, past the tall pine trees that shade the Soviet Headquarters. When I sat down in Heinz Depper's compartment, he was looking at a big Red banner strung across a main street. The sign said: "Vote 'Ja' for democracy." It was part of a propaganda campaign for the Communist People's Congress "elections" this week...
They also found themselves imitating their master's mannerisms. They scribbled furiously on the nearest blackboard, talked in soft, deep tones, combed agitated fingers through tousled hair, grunted an excited "Ja, Ja" or a nervous "Hunh, Hunh." They learned to careen along with a perpetual, preoccupied stoop; some even took up chain-smoking and blue shirts...
...square resounded with one mighty "Ja!" Then & there the town meeting agreed to contribute four freight cars of grain, dried fish and fresh vegetables to be flown to Berlin. All over Western Germany, much the same thing was happening. Russia's brutal siege of Berlin had shaken Western Germany out of a surly indifference. In Hamburg, Bremen and Lower Saxony, local governments passed resolutions pledging one full day's ration from each citizen. In the Ruhr, German authorities ordered 100,000 tons of coal, which had been earmarked for Ruhr homes, to be flown to Berlin instead...
...Ja" in the East. Red countermeasures had already begun. The day before Robertson spoke, the Russian-controlled Berlin radio announced, not unexpectedly, a plebiscite for the Soviet zone next month on the question of "unity." The foregone conclusion: most would vote "Ja." Then the Russians could set up their capital in Berlin (in their own sector), or possibly in Leipzig...