International: He Who Surrenders Berlin

To the German capital and its people last week came the most violent and perhaps the most fateful days since Red armies three years ago blasted their way across the Tiergarten, littered with uniformed corpses. After watching the Berlin scene last week, TIME'S Bureau Chief Emmet Hughes cabled:

The whine of bullets echoed in the hollow ruins. Deep in the Russian sector, Red mob violence had finally pushed Berlin's government to the city's Western half. But on this side, the people rose some 300,000 strong to shout their defiance of the Reds in one...

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