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...ugly Wall-and on New Year's morning some of them had to be poured back out again. With beer and brandy, Scotch and vodka, but mostly with bubbly glasses of Sekt (German champagne), nearly 78,000 West Berliners toasted the turn of the year with Red sector relatives. Those fortunate enough to have passes for both New Year's Eve and the day itself were permitted to spend the night in the East, and thus sleep off the loudest, happiest spree the divided city had experienced since the Wall went up 28 months ago. Others, overcome with...
Memories of 1953. Last week signs of even stronger worker protest came to light with the appearance of the latest issue of Das Karussell, plant newspaper of the big "Seventh of October" agricultural combine factory in the Eastern sector's Weissensee district. There, a deputation of workers had repeatedly told factory functionaries that East Germany was in the wrong on the Wall issue. "After all," the newspaper uneasily quoted them, "the Wall was erected by our government. Therefore it is up to our government to take the Wall down, and all discussions and negotiations about passes are superfluous." Karussell...
Partition of Cyprus into Greek and Turkish sectors, which is proposed by Turkey and kutchuk, with the division of the island and the uprooting of the population, would be a disaster, Such a partition would wreck for years any hope of economic improvement, destroy what political stability the island has left, and pave the way for more hostilities. The Greek sector would surely ally itself to Athens and the Turkish to Ankara, thus dragging Greece and Turkey further towards war. The British, who had the lessons of partition spelled out for them in Ireland, India, and Palestine, rejected this plan...
Once through the Wall, Westerners were struck by the hollow silence of the Eastern sector. There was none of the bustle and traffic noise of the West, and even conversations among neighbors had a leaden, monotonous quality, with the nuances coming from the eyes. The only color was in the shops, stocked especially for the holiday season with eggs, wurst of all kinds, toys, cosmetics, porcelain and even-wonder of wonders-oranges. The Vopos seemed to be the major consumers of these tropical delicacies, and every snowy crossing point reeked with the tang of orange peel. But everyone knew that...
...jackhammers tearing gates in the Berlin Wall, the whine of cranes removing zigzag barriers from heavily guarded crossing points. Then, late last week, the candy-stripe customs poles went up, and thousands of grinning, gift-laden West Berliners swarmed through the Wall for their first reunions with eastern sector relatives since August 1961. A long row of glowing charcoal braziers warmed the approach to the Oberbaum Bridge, and two brightly lit Christmas trees guarded its western end. On the other side of the River Spree, even the trigger-happy East German Vopos wore grins above their cradled submachine guns...