General Eisenhower, Field Marshal Montgomery and Marshal Zhukov have anxiously avoided the common ground of Berlin during the past four weeks. That was typical of the state of Big Power affairs. When the three did meet at a session of the Allied Control Council, they discussed minor matters. In Washington and London, the feeling grew that the Control Council just would not work.
On lower administrative levels, the story of the crisis was shaped by day-to-day encounters of officers who often disliked each other, by the day-to-day problems and incompatibilities of routine occupation business. Last fortnight, Berlin's Kommandatura met to transact some...
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