Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reduce the ignorance and the pressure that had led millions into a double allegiance to Communism and Catholicism. It wanted to sharpen the issue in the consciences of men. Confusion over this issue had created dangers for the church on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the West the confusion arose mainly out of ignorance; in the East, out of the efforts of individuals to come to terms with the police state...
...view that the nations of the West are today at war with communism ... It is possible that this struggle . . . might eventually lead us into a 'hot' or shooting war. This would be disastrous for the whole world. Therefore, it must be prevented...
From Berlin, a TIME Corespondent cabled: "Like a swain who cannot bring himself to forget the girl who jilted him, the Russians are still unable to abandon completely the idea of blockading Berlin. Theoretically, rail, road and water traffic between West Germany and Berlin have been open for two months. In fact, hardly a week has gone by since the formal lifting of the blockade without Russian chicanery arbitrarily disrupting services somewhere along the line...
Last week, at the Helmstedt checkpoint on the Autobahn to Berlin, 300 West German trucks were jammed up for six miles. The Russians were making token inspections which required 15 minutes for each truck, whether or not they actually examined the cargo...
...Russians were apparently sulking over the continuation of the Anglo-U.S. airlift, which they had thought the West would drop like a hot hand grenade as soon as the New York agreement was reached last May. They no doubt disliked Western stockpiling in Berlin as a buffer against possible future blockades. But Washington accepted with equanimity the prospect of more trouble on the Autobahnen. Said one Department of State spokesman: "We worked out a pretty good scheme of retaliation measures at the time of the lifting of the blockade. The degree of our reaction will be strictly proportionate...