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...Western sector of Berlin, the city assembly did some strenuous housecleaning. First they voted to sweep the name of Wilhelm Pieck, pink-faced boss of the city's Reds, from the roll of its honorary citizens. Then they went to work on some moldering skeletons in the back closets. Also wiped from the honor roll: Hitler, Goebbels and Göring. Second-Reich President Paul von Hindenburg survived...
...polls the people had recorded a smashing defiance of Communism (TIME, Dec. 13). Colonel Frank Howley, the hard-bitten commander of the city's U.S. sector, welcomed West Berliners to "a place in the free world of men and women"-but warned them that further sacrifices were in store. In a formal statement from Washington, the State Department said: "The Berlin population has . . . demonstrated a type of civic courage which has won for it the admiration of the democratic peoples of the world...
Almost visibly and audibly gnashing their teeth, the Communists denounced the West-sector elections as "illegal" because of "fraud and terror." They blocked mail deliveries across the East-West line.* They put East Berlin's fire department under their tough police chief, Paul Mark-graf, to make sure that it would not go to any non-Communist fires. They set up new restrictions against automotive traffic, and even withdrew railway cars which had served West Berlin for garbage removal...
...With only the flimsiest pretense of democratic procedure, the Communists set up a "people's government" of Berlin. They repudiated the anti-Communist City Assembly, legally elected two years ago, and claimed authority over the whole city, although well aware that they would exercise it in the Soviet sector alone...
...placing only 26 of their men on the 130-member Assembly. Now, with their prestige at its lowest ebb, they could not afford another free election. So Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky informed the Western commanders that Russia would boycott the Sunday elections; there would be no balloting in the Soviet sector...