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In March 1948, as the threat of Soviet military siege mounted against the Western outpost of Berlin, the American military governor of Germany, General Lucius D. Clay, summoned his staff to hear Washington's suggestion that American dependents be evacuated for their safety. "If any of you are nervous?" he declared in his quiet Georgia accent, "and I don't want anybody who's nervous about his family around here?you may certainly send them home. But on one condition. You must go with them." All dependents and officers stayed. By June, as the blockade was imposed and Clay was considering the option of a cargo airlift, he had summoned the elected German mayor of Berlin, the socialist Ernst Reuter. "I want you to know this," he began. "No matter what we may do, the Berliners are going to be short of fuel. They are going to be short of electricity... There are going to be times when they are going to be very cold, and feel very miserable ... I don't want to go into it unless you understand that fully, unless you are convinced that the Berliners will author of Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles.

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Author

Peter Grose

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences