Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Thursday, by the U.S.S.R.'s promise, the Berlin blockade will be lifted. Eleven days later, the Council of Foreign Ministers will meet in Paris to discuss the future of Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). U.S. officialdom this week was like a man who had been pushing against a door which someone had been holding shut from the other side. Now, suddenly, the door was thrown open. There, nodding and smiling enigmatically, was the U.S.S.R...
...long cold war. It was the climax to a strange new pattern in diplomatic tactics, which had casually begun in the U.N. delegates' lounge at Lake Success and had come to a head a fortnight ago with the first hint of U.S.-Russian agreement on Berlin...
...Russian. Aides found a translator. Finally, Jessup got on the telephone. He passed the word to Cadogan and Chauvel that Malik had agreed to meet with them. The first meeting of Four Power spokesmen since last winter's fruitless discussions in Geneva on the subject of the Berlin blockade was set for 12:30 the next...
There was one more important job to do; then the tired, sad-eyed man with the soft voice and spring-steel will could go home. From his somber headquarters in Berlin this week, the U.S. Military Governor for Germany would send the order to the troops and civilians of his command: get the trains, trucks and barges moving back into Berlin. After that, General Lucius DuBignon Clay would be heading back to the U.S. for retirement...
Even supposing that no agreement whatsoever comes out of the foreign ministers conference, the end of the Berlin blockade and its tensions is welcome, of course. This crisis has lasted 11 months: during that time, the West has drawn closer together, and in Europe, at least, has been more successful than not in the struggle for recovery. But Europe, divided, hostile, and unhappy, has felt little joy at any "victory" for either side in the war of nerves. The re-opening of the German question can conceivably lead to a cautious resolution of East-West conflict in Europe...