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...Soviet zone, held high the images of their master Stalin. Three-quarters of a million gathered in the Western zone to cheer anti-Communist speakers. Between opposing camps ranged a thin line of police and occupation troops. At Potsdamer Platz, demonstrators surged from the Allied toward the Soviet sector, hurling stones at its police, shouting "Black SS!" and "Communist pigs!" They were promptly dispersed by West German police...
...meanwhile refused to work with the Trusteeship Council in any way. Both countries have indicated they intend to keep their hold on Jerusalem. Israel has moved most of its government offices there, declaring the city the nation's historic capital. Jordan's annexation of Arab Palestine, including the Arab sector of Jerusalem, greatly strengthened Abdulla's hold on the city. The best the Trusteeship Council can now do is to report back to the General Assembly and let that body take another slab at the problem...
...choir was now really frightened, but it had no prospects for making a living in West Germany. It jumped at a chance to sing at the big Titania Palast in the U.S. sector of Berlin. The members hoped to return home with enough money and publicity to leave the Soviet zone soon afterwards. The East zone police, obviously well informed about the choir's plans, struck a few days after the choir left for Berlin. Schueck's wife was arrested when she went to the Dresden railway station to send some scores to her husband. The same...
...neutral, that we can't and don't want to hitch ourselves to a political thing, then we don't have any choice." To add to the nerve-racking situation, the choir was living in a dingy hotel only just inside the U.S. sector boundary, and momentarily expecting a Communist attempt to kidnap them. Frau Ursula-Sonja Nehl thought that a packet of sandwiches she found in her room had been poisoned...
...present government have agreed on the necessity of unifying all Germany under one government. The Western Allies, however, in finally standing for a unified Germany "under democratic principle," had other reasons than giving in to German patriotism. The line dividing East and West is not economically logical. The Western sector cannot get Eastern raw materials and the Eastern sector cannot buy Western manufactures. And, with the division, the West zone lost its principle food source in the East. Partly due to the division, West Germany now has an employment problem: its population has gone up 20 percent, mainly in refugees...