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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...these possibilities are dangerous, but the second-intensive preparation for a showdown by 1953-seems the least perilous of the three. This path has, however, a special pitfall which could make it the most dangerous of all. If the U.S. and its Allies do not start intensive defense preparations immediately, or if they adopt half-measures, or if they are lulled by Russian conciliatory gestures into stopping halfway, then they will place themselves in a worse position than their present...
...West failed to take advantage of its moral victory. Morale flashed up again last June when the U.S. promptly and decisively accepted the Communist challenge in Korea. But it dropped again when U.S. battle defeats, added to appeasing statements from Washington, cast doubt on the U.S. determination to make a firm stand against Communism in Asia, however doughty might be its stand in Korea. The morale of Germany, and the rest of Europe, could only be revived by immediate European rearmament, with the U.S. as leader and Germany as one of the partners. Otherwise, soon, Berlin might go; the loss...
...paper, the nations of non-Communist Europe could overmatch the basic resources of Communist Europe. On each side of the Iron Curtain live about 250 million people. The Europeans to the west of the Curtain possess greatly superior technical know-how and industrial capacity. They can, for instance, make 50 million tons of steel a year against the 28 million-ton capacity of Russia and its satellites. Yet if West Germany's 50 million people and 15 million-ton steel capacity should pass into Red control, preponderance would pass to the Reds. Even with the German industrial capacity still...
...critical days before the Russian blockade, he vowed: "We will defend ourselves with all our means against the attempt to make us slaves and helots." When the blockade was imposed, he cried: "People of Berlin! Go the straight road. Only if we are determined to run every risk can we win the life that alone is worth living-be it ever so poor-a life in freedom...
Reuter also had to make frequent trips to Western Germany, mostly to plead the city's case at Bonn, sometimes to meet with the Minister-Presidents of the eleven Western Länder (states), sometimes to confer with Socialist Party colleagues. Whenever time permitted, he traveled by car on the Autobahn through the Soviet zone, even though he was anathema to the Russians; he was determined to assert the Berliners' right of free access to their city...