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With the release of 100 homing pigeons from its London headquarters and a banquet for more than 1,000 notables, Reuters' news service last week celebrated its 100th anniversary. Since Founder Paul Julius Reuter started the service by using pigeons to carry financial news on the continent, Reuters has grown to be the world's second largest news service (biggest: Associated Press), with more than 3,200 newspaper clients and 2,000 staffers and stringers around the world...
...days it looked as if Berlin had lost its staunchest defender against Communism, indomitable Mayor Ernst Reuter...
During elections in West Berlin last month, Reuter's Social Democratic Party failed to regain its long-standing majority, captured only 61 out of 127 seats in the city's House of Representatives. The other seats went to a coalition of Christian Democrats and Free Democrats, who put up their own candidate for mayor, a hardworking but uninspiring politician named Walter Schreiber. The House of Representatives, which by Berlin law elects the mayor, took a vote. Result: a tie between the two candidates. According to the city constitution, the tie should have been resolved...
Even West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a Christian Democrat and no friend of Socialists, supported Socialist Reuter. Schreiber patriotically got the point, agreed to serve as Reuter's deputy, with a strong hand on the city's patronage lever. Last week the House of Representatives formally elected Reuter for another four-year term. All three of Berlin's non-Communist parties were once more solidly united against the Reds...
Before electing Reuter, the Berlin House of Representatives last week had another duty; it formally said goodbye to Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. commander in Berlin, who had been, like its mayor, a firm champion of Berlin's freedom. Said Taylor, who will return to the U.S. to become an assistant U.S. Army chief of staff: "Here is the spirit of the front line, which brings a solidarity found nowhere else in Germany, perhaps nowhere else in Europe . . ." Then Taylor introduced his successor, Major General Lemuel Mathewson, 51, a West Pointer with 28 years' service...