Word: mps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Groups of husky British MPs rushed to the locks in armored cars. After four days of discussion between a Russian general and a British brigadier, the Russians agreed not to interfere any more. For the Russian retreat the Communist press had an odd explanation. The Russians, it solemnly assured its readers, had staged the affair in order to re-establish diplomatic contact with the Western Powers...
...ballooned into a shocking black & white scandal. Angry Negro officers, hitherto amenable to unofficial discriminatory rules, decide that this is the moment to claim their right to membership in the "restricted" officers' club. Knowing the effect this will have on white personnel, Gus Beale orders MPs to keep the Negroes out. Soon the U.S. press is ablaze with a garbled, press-service version of the story, while Washington, drawing back its skirts, coldly leaves Beale holding the bag. When the book ends, the storm has subsided as suddenly as it began. It is ready to break out again...
Police and government officials were bewildered. When a group of correspondents asked permission to visit the jail, they were told: "The police cannot take responsibility for your safety." The correspondents walked the six blocks to the jail, through throngs of police and MPs, without being challenged...
...tonight." A Sternist spokesman thought more than half had returned to the jail; he expected more to come back "if they can get through the police lines." It was only a protest demonstration, not a jailbreak, he explained. "We have just been out doing a little fraternization with the MPs...
...squad of British MPs raced to the scene, formed a cordon that easily pushed the crowd back. (One British officer came running with his camera, and a Berliner watching him snapped bitterly: "How typical! The Russians come with machine guns and the British with their cameras!") The riots ended with only one dead-a 15-year-old boy shot through the groin by Soviet-sector police...