Word: stettin
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When the Russians were storming Stettin, 50 miles southeast of Peenemünde, blond, husky Dr. Werner von Braun, research director of E.W., had on his desk "five orders from the High Command telling me to stay at Peenemünde, and five orders, also from the High Command, telling me to move." He consulted his staff, decided to "go with the West," i.e., toward the British and American armies...
...friends nor the antagonists of the U.S. had a clear idea of where the U.S. stood. Today the world sees the U.S. as a leading champion among the great powers of a strong United Nations and as an active participant in the discussion of every international issue, from Stettin around to Harbin...
Military power certainly still spoke with a mighty voice in the Big Four's draft treaties. In the four satellites east of the Stettin-Trieste line (Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary) where the Red Army held control, Russia got pretty much what it wanted. In Italy, occupied by the U.S. and Britain, Russia had yielded to the Western powers on most points...
Like chicks flocking to the mother hen when the storm clouds gather, Russia's satellite leaders were coming to Moscow for encouragement-and for gold, food, arms, war matériel-as the two worlds on either side of the Stettin-Trieste line braced themselves...
...wasn't war along the Stettin-Trieste line, but it wasn't peace either...