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During the Russian blockade of Berlin, some Russians were themselves blockaded in the U.S. sector of the city. They worked in the massive grey Reichsbahn-Direktion, headquarters of the Soviet-controlled railroad spiderweb radiating from Berlin. After the blockade, in last summer's railroad strike, 200 West Berliners charged into the building, tore down pictures of Stalin. That was enough for the Russians: they moved their railroad officials into the Soviet sector, leaving only an automatic rail-telephone switchboard and a small school for railroaders in the Direktion; 600 offices stood empty...
...Orange Placard. To Joseph P. McNulty, U.S. official in charge of former Reich property, came the heads of West Berlin city government agencies, in search of office space. Would he requisition the Reichsbahn-Direktion building? Wholly within his and the U.S.'s legal rights, McNulty agreed on one condition: the Soviet switchboard was to continue functioning. Then he signed his orange-colored Notice of Requisition, gave it to the city officials to post on the building. U.S. Commandant Major General Maxwell D. Taylor was not notified, nor was Taylor's superior in Frankfurt, U.S. High Commissioner John...
...tourists planning a trip abroad this summer may well note a significant item which escaped the German censorship, slipped across the ocean last week. The item (from the technical German railroad magazine Die Reichsbahn...
...German State Railway (Deutsche Reichsbahn), world's largest system,* all tracks, rolling stock and property of the 3,628-mile Austrian State Railways. Said an official announcement from the German Railroads Information Office, which last week closed all U. S. bureaus of the Austrian State Tourist Department: "The rejoicing of Austria and the happiness of the Austrian and German people over their long desired reunion will also be a boon to travelers: the dark clouds of political uncertainty have drifted away...
TIME, May 10, on p. 52 under Transport states that ". . . nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving." A number of years ago the Deutsche Reichsbahn started installing regular telephone service from moving trains to outside points in the country...
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