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...Berlin, there are plenty of heroes to adorn them. In their weary, often grumbling and fumbling way, it was Berlin's plain people who won the battle-the people who met in huge rallies to hurl their defiance from the shadow of the Red-flag-topped Brandenburger Tor, the people who turned out in bitter cold last December to vote a solid no to the Communists, the people who cut down their trees rather than accept Russia's favors. Without them, the West, for all its bold determination and its roaring C-54s, would have lost Berlin...
...convicted Japanese, Jackson broke a 4-10-4 deadlock among his fellow justices and voted that the Supreme Court of the U.S. hear argument on whether to review the legality of the Tokyo tribunal. Jackson's opinion argued on both sides of the 440-4 deadlock.'Tor this court now to call up these cases for judicial review under exclusively American law," he warned, "can only be regarded as a warning to our associates in the trials that no commitment of the President or of the military authorities . . . has,finality [without] the approval of this court...
...Both of whom were last seen on Broadway in the '305: Morley in Oscar Wilde, Miss Ashcroft in High Tor...
...British with Their Cameras!" Unknown to the Russians, the people's attention by now had largely turned on an extraordinary drama at the Branden-burger Tor itself. A tall, dark youth had climbed the gate and was wrestling with the red flag on top. The crowd watched his progress with the hushed awe of an audience at an acrobatic show-even as pistol shots sporadically cracked out from the far side along Unter den Linden. Now the crowd cried: "Anbrennen!" (Burn it!). The first youth failed to get the flag down; two more tried, and the third finally sent...
...Distressed Butler. It must be said that Red police and troops behaved with almost commendable restraint, in the fray at Brandenburger Tor. They had no goal there: trouble was forced upon them. Their masters and the masters' stooges behaved infinitely worse, earlier in the week, at the City Hall, where they had a coldly planned objective. There they clamped a final, successful siege on the building, drove out the City Assembly, and-incidentally but treacherously-seized 46 hapless West-sector police...