Word: sector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oliver Twist had opened without fanfare in a second-rate theater in the British sector, the Kurbel (meaning: the crank). The theater is in a neighborhood heavily populated by Polish Jewish D.P.s. One night last week, D.P.s rioted in the moviehouse, stopped the show, damaged the theater. Berlin Jewish groups and Ernst Reuter, Berlin's mayor, appealed to the British to ban the movie...
Credentials of Fear. So you will find it any afternoon on the third floor of the cinder-grey building at 54 Kantstrasse, in Berlin's British sector. The feet you stumble over have trudged from the Soviet zone. They are the tired feet of those who flee from the "people's democracy...
...month Berlin had been deceptively quiet, as though the antagonists, while not relaxing their holds, had paused for breath. Last week the silence was broken by a brass-lunged blast from Colonel Frank L. Howley, hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector. On New Year's Day, two or three U.S. officials telephoned their Russian opposite numbers to wish them a prosperous New Year. When he heard of this incident last week, Howley's quick-triggered temper exploded...
...grudging tribute came from Friedrich Ebert, Communist mayor of Berlin's Soviet sector. "They seem to have no lack of planes and pilots and gasoline," he said. "I live in Potsdam and hear the damned things roaring over the house all night...
...secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities of the EKU "stretch out far beyond the borders of the U.S.S.R. Here the main aim of the EKU is the disorganization of the world economy: inciting class war, aggravating industrial crises, organizing strikes." In short, the EKU's "Foreign Sector" is Russia's High Command for her war against the Marshall Plan...