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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turns of a new crisis: the Russian push to end four-power occupation of Berlin (see FOREIGN NEWS). Whatever the Russian maneuvers meant, there was only one course for the U.S.: to stand steady. Announced President Eisenhower through Press Secretary James Hagerty: "Our firm intentions in West Berlin remain unchanged...
...told him," rasped the Chancellor himself next evening at a state election rally in Munich, "that we look upon the forces of our Western allies at Berlin as defenders of freedom, and that it is of the greatest importance that they should remain there." But at an Indonesian embassy reception Smirnov told reporters: "We will give Berlin back to the Germans. I hope it will go quickly, the quicker the better. Everything will be settled by Christmas...
...whose nerves must remain steady if West Berlin's 2,200,000 people are to remain free is Mayor Willy Brandt, a youngish Socialist with a lifetime of adventure already behind...
Since integration, one real problem of Washington schools has been the ancient one of low-income U.S. Negroes. The total school population has risen to 73% Negro, up 13% since 1954. This may refleet a white flight to the suburbs. The problems still remain-to be confronted for the first time by Washington's white teachers. Poverty among the families of Negroes at Jefferson Junior High is so severe that Principal Hugh Smith is sometimes asked to help them raise rent money. His unwed-mother problem is "tremendous." Says he: "There are years of work ahead...
...overcome shyness, become active in the P.T.A. and risen to offices in several mixed chapters. On their merit, Negro teachers have continued to rise in the school system; there are Negro assistant superintendents in charge of elementary schools, pupil appraisal, adult and vocational education. To Washingtonians and outsiders who remain pessimistic. School Superintendent Hansen says: "Some of us think our greatest contribution to the problem is to go about our business-the education of children in our city-and let the results speak for themselves...