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...formal Geburtstagsfeier took place the day before, when some 4,000 Berliners solemnly gathered around Tempelhof. The huge square in front of the airport was renamed "Platz der Luitbrücke" (Airbridge Square). Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter told the crowd that they were in a fight which would not end until "all our people are free." He remembered how, when General Lucius Clay first told him that the U.S. would supply Berlin by air, he had remarked to the general's aide: "It's wonderful to hear Clay's determination...
...Potsdamer Platz last week, an old man creakily stooped to retrieve a cigarette butt. He expressed the city's skepticism: "New rumors, eh? Ha, they're all just like soap bubbles-too shiny to be true." Near Tempelhof airdrome, where the U.S. and British planes were still droning in, a student scoffed: "The Russians are bluffing again...
...wide Potsdamer Platz, which juts from the Russian sector into the British and U.S. sectors, Russian-sector police staged another raid on German black marketeers. A big crowd of Germans quickly gathered, burned Communist flags in the street, and tried to overturn a car suspected of containing a Red bigwig. Women shouted, "Get out of Berlin, you Communist bandits!" When the crowd stoned the raiders, the police answered with gunfire. Several Germans were wounded...
...Long." The Potsdamer Platz was the vortex of battle. One morning a Soviet jeep with five soldiers aboard shot out from the Russian side of the square, raced across it, darted ten yards up the Potsdamerstrasse in the British sector. Two soldiers jumped out; one grabbed a U.S. newsreel cameraman, but the latter wrenched free and escaped. The other Russian chased a German photographer several yards farther up the street. He seemed ready to level his rifle and fire. A British major standing nearby, trim in his Black Watch uniform, put his hand on his pistol holster. The pursuing Russian...
...strike wave had some ugly breakers. In N&252;rnberg, 30,000 workers jammed the former Adolf Hitler Platz, where they listened to nationalist harangues beneath signs proclaiming: WE DEMAND GERMAN UNITY. In a Frankfurt movie theater, when a newsreel showed the American Friendship Train carrying food to Germany's neighbors, the audience yelled: "The Americans will let us starve. Let them go to hell...