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...determination of the Berliners that it typified and toughened, brought results. The U.S. and Britain mounted the huge and magnificent airlift effort. While the struggle raged in the air, it also crackled on the ground. In August 1948 Communist hooligans raided the City Hall, which was in the Soviet sector. As they burst in on Reuter, he waved them away: "Can't you see I've got work to do?" When the City Hall finally became untenable, Reuter led the municipal administration (minus the Communists) to Western Berlin. The split of the city into East and West...
...last week, Berlin's Western sector had five months' supply of coal on hand and a six months' supply of grain and cereals. Along the Kurfürstendamm, against the grey bomb rubble, sidewalk cafes with flower-decked tables and shops with smart new chromium & glass fronts looked valiantly hopeful. But by & large, Berlin's economy was not healthy. It still had 294,000 jobless, a whopping 600 million-mark annual budgetary deficit. West Berlin was getting little aid from the Bonn government...
Work & Wait. Along with his people, Ernst Reuter was working and waiting. In his modest home in the suburb of Zehlendorf, in the U.S. sector, he got up every morning at 7:30 and ate a modest breakfast. ("He has no time for exercise and he doesn't want to get fat," his petite, redheaded wife explained.) At 8:15, he set a black beret on his unruly grey hair, picked up his cane and went out to his official car, a black Mercedes sedan. At 8:30, he arrived at the great, grey Rathaus Schoneberg and walked...
...northeast corner. The enemy got to within four miles of Kyongju. The Reds seized nearly the whole of the Yongchon-Pohang road and brought the Yongchon-Kyongju road under interdiction fire. Since General Walker had no reserves and could spare no front-line troops from any other sector, he was forced to pull the 24th Division (first U.S. division committed in Korea) from a rest area and send it back to battle in the northeast. The 24th's commander, Major General John Church, looked very sick of the war when he conferred with the Marines' Brigadier General Edward...
What he was talking about was the grim adventure last week of Frank Emery, 23, International News Service Correspondent, and Randolph Churchill, 39, of the London Daily Telegraph. After several days at "Sioggerville" (correspondents' slang for a dangerous sector), Emery and Churchill had gone to a quiet sector for a rest. There, a G.I. braced them: "You fellows always talk to the brass and never give us a break. Why don't you come on patrol with us tonight and tell the people back home how tough it is ... There won't be any danger. We know...