Word: marked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berlin, but declares that Russia has no intention of forcing them out. Stalin admits frankly that Russia's blockade was a retaliation against the Western powers' London plan for a Western German regime. Eventually, Stalin agrees to lift the blockade on condition that the Russian mark be Berlin's sole currency. He agrees not to insist on postponement of the West's plans for Western Germany, but wants it recorded as Russia's "insistent wish." The Russians certainly mean to do everything they can to delay Western German recovery. Stalin may have decided to concede...
...Western envoys again meet Stalin and receive his personal draft of a directive to the Allied military governors in Berlin. This provides for lifting the blockade, and for circulation in Berlin of the Russian mark under four-power control. All this is subject to agreement, by the military governors, upon the "practical implementation" of the vaguely worded Moscow "agreement in principle...
...throats will tighten. There will be alert and anxious clusters around television sets in local bars, and here and there, in isolated rooms, the grinds will tune in softly to catch the half-time score. This gentle madness will endure until the heavy snows have covered the last eleat-mark on the field, and memories of this football year are submerged in expectations of the next...
...justify pro-Republican predictions. The manipulations in Dixie suggest a possible realignment in the parties and thus invalidation of Bean's historical statistics. Henry Wallace threatens to make heavy inroads in the minority districts of the pivotal states, and the Presidents ability as a candidate is still a question-mark. But on the Communist issue Bean suggests that the Third Party will draw most of the anti-Red fire. Catholics who did not support the Democratic Party in 1946, because of its supposed Communist affiliations, will in 1948 swing back into line, says Bean...
This morning's ceremonies will mark the first formal Radcliffe ceremony in which this year's freshman class participates, and it will also be their first opportunity to meet the majority of upperclassmen...