THE NATIONS: Berlin in the Rain

"By Whitsuntide all Berlin will be ours," Communist Youth Leader Manfred Weigand had boasted. German Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht had chimed in: "Whitsuntide will be the signal for a national uprising."

Whitsuntide came & went, and the U.S. and its Allies this week were still in Berlin. The huge Communist youth demonstration went off in a driving rain, a sodden flop. After the captains and the kids departed, Berlin's otherwise neat and well-kept ruins were littered with a mass of Communist leaflets; otherwise nothing much had changed. There could be no doubt...

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