Word: west
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernst Reuter, West Berlin's stalwart Socialist mayor, said: "Of course it's a good thing. I'm very happy. At last the Russians have climbed down. Now I hope they'll disappear from our midst." But everyone realized that the battle for the city would continue. East Berlin's Communist Party called for conferences to end the split in the city government. To this, Ernst Reuter retorted: "Work with those people-never...
...Last Trees. "Even the ruins of Berlin," TIME Correspondent Dave Richardson cabled this week, "are marked by the East-West conflict of the past eleven months. In past springs, stately chestnut and linden trees had spread a canopy of pink and white over the ruins. This year, street after street in Berlin is bare of trees. In the long hard winter of the blockade, Berlin's people had to decide whether to accept Soviet Russia's offer of coal or cut down their trees. They chose to give up the trees. At first it was only one tree...
...Guessing Game. The settlement of which Ernest Bevin spoke, if it ever could be achieved at all, might take a long chain of other Berlins-of similar hard-won victories from Seoul to Trieste. The West had learned that for decades to come it faced more or less permanent duty on the ramparts of freedom. The point was that the West's position had improved immeasurably since the Berlin blockade began...
...this end, many diplomats agreed, they would almost certainly demand 1) the establishment of a strong, centralized German government and 2) the end of the separate West German state now being created, or at least its stringent subordination to a central German regime. Furthermore they were expected to propose the withdrawal of all occupation troops...
...West's policy in the face of these gambits was slowly crystallizing. The West would never agree to an effective Russian veto in Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...