Word: leber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Diplomatic Echo. It takes Annedore Leber, a nervy, auburn-haired woman of 44, to jar the Soviet delegate from his posturing. She is a Social Democrat, an editor of the newspaper Telegraf; her husband gave his life in the underground conspiracy against the Nazis. Her blue eyes are hot with anger, and she is impatient with all this petty squabbling over package shipments and machine removals when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people...
...Frau Leber's voice trembles with emotion as she concludes: "We were democrats in 1933 . . . Our spirit has stood a test which not every free citizen would have found easy to meet . . . We know that dictatorship can be beaten only by meeting it before it begins. That is why we are willing to risk everything today .. . But we solemnly warn every democratic citizen of the free world of the urgency of this moment when he must make a good and a clear decision. Otherwise, Berlin will be lost, with only a diplomatic protest as an after-echo...
...Only Lesson. Men & women like Annedore Leber may expect (at best) to be under arrest within 48 hours of any Western evacuation of Berlin. Until that day comes-if it does-they can continue battling to show the Russians that their Nervenkrieg has been far from an unqualified success-and to remind the Western powers that they are defending in Berlin something more than just 150,000 acres of this debris-laden Brandenburg plain. Is there anything else they...
...Cruel Spirit. The truth of his statement was illustrated when Berlin's City Assembly met to debate the quiet terror which has gripped Berlin's Soviet sector for months. Anti-Communists have been disappearing daily, without a trace. Related Frau Annedore Leber, a Socialist deputy: "Today again I had a strange visitor who wanted to know about my political life and what sort of guests come to my house. That is why I am as much concerned about the fate of Maniu, Petkoff and Masaryk as I am about the fate of my closest friends. . . . There...