Word: sectored
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...were the times, and so jumpy the world, that Frau Lehrte and a young soldier out for an afternoon of fun last Week caused an excited incident in besieged Berlin. Some U.S. newspapers reported it under black headlines. Said one story: "Russian troops have opened fire inside the U.S. sector...
JUNE 18. The Western Allies announce their currency reform. Next day, the Russians suspend all passenger train traffic between the Eastern and Western zones, supposedly to keep Western marks out of the Russian sector. (Actually the first Russian traffic restrictions came almost three months before...
...them. Their masters and the masters' stooges behaved infinitely worse, earlier in the week, at the City Hall, where they had a coldly planned objective. There they clamped a final, successful siege on the building, drove out the City Assembly, and-incidentally but treacherously-seized 46 hapless West-sector police...
...wore the disapproving and distressed look of a butler at a tea party when one of the guests has dropped an éclair on his mistress' finest carpet. In the middle of a lame press conference which he had summoned, word came that the Soviet-sector police had arrived in force, were swarming all over the building. For a while the reason was not clear; then it was learned that 46 West-sector police in plainclothes, summoned by Friedensburg, were trapped in the building, unarmed. They had contributed absolutely nothing to defending the seat of city government. Now they...
They piled into two French army trucks and headed for freedom. Four blocks away two Soviet jeeps, bristling with Tommy guns, brought them to a halt. Almost instantly 75 Soviet-sector police swarmed from the shadows of a nearby building. As the Germans were taken, dawn was just beginning to fill the skies above the ruins...