Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moscow this week announced that it was willing to lift the Berlin blockade-at a price. Moscow made two conditions: 1) the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers must meet again to discuss the question of a single currency for Berlin "together with other questions bearing on Germany;" 2) the Western Powers must lift their counter-blockade by which they have prevented trade between Germany's eastern and western zones...
...Moscow announcement specifically stated that Russia was willing to lift the Berlin siege before the foreign ministers convene, if & when a date for the conference could be set. In the past, the Russians had insisted they would lift the blockade only after the ministers had met and reached agreement...
...West seemed ready to agree to another Big Four conference, and to lift its counter-blockade. But it was not willing to abandon its plans for Western Germany. Day before the Tass announcement, the Western Powers reported full agreement with the West Germans on their proposed constitution. West Germany was closer to statehood than ever before (see below...
Reports would not down that Russia was trying to find a way to lift the Berlin blockade...
...thing, time-even in Hollywood-has not stood still. Ginger and Fred are no longer quite up to the soaring, smoothly paced routines of the '305. Also missing (with one exception: They Can't Take That Away from Me) are the romantic Gershwin tunes which used to lift and carry their pictures along. Nevertheless, what is left makes much better entertainment than most cinemusicals. Except for a few slow spots, e.g., a flat-footed Scottish number in kilts and some noisy, slashing attacks on a concert grand by Pianist Oscar Levant, the show moves along at a lively...