The Soviets began a blockade of West Berlin on June 24, 1948. Two days later the Allies responded with an emergency airlift to relieve two million isolated West Berliners.
http://flattopshistorywarpolitics.yu...h#.Ucx1s9jJqE4
The Soviets began a blockade of West Berlin on June 24, 1948. Two days later the Allies responded with an emergency airlift to relieve two million isolated West Berliners.
http://flattopshistorywarpolitics.yu...h#.Ucx1s9jJqE4
"It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view." -- Oscar Levant
This is a very good book about that episode:
http://www.amazon.com/Daring-Young-M.../dp/B0048ELD78
It's available for download to Kindle.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
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