Berlin Blockade
Will End May 12
(Continued from Page One)
complicated arrangements for re
storing normal rail, highway and
barge traffic between Berlin and
the Western occupation zones.
A copy of the statement was
given to Trygve Lie, United Na
tions secretary general.
Lie said the agreement marked
“a great step forward for peace
and strengthening of the United
Nations.”
American officials were obvi
ously cheered by the success of the
New York negotiations. Many ob
servers warned, however, that the
people of the United States and
the rest of the West should not in
terpret it as meaning that the con
flict between Russian communism
and western democracy has sud
denly ended.
Russia is expected to interpret
the Berlin settlement to her peo
ple as a sweeping victory for Sov
iet Russia and world ‘“peace”
forces.
The Russian press limited itself
today to announcing that ‘‘agree
ment was attained on all import- •
ant questions of principle” at the
New York talks on the Berlin
problem.
All Europe hailed the scheduled
ending of the blockade as a bright
omen, but whether it was a vic
tory for the East or West depend
ed on which newspaper you read
or which statesman you listened
to.
Communists said Russia had
won a round in the battle with
‘‘western imperialists and war
mongers.” Western European na
tions took the view that allied di
plomacy—plus the airlift — had
scored a victory.
Soviet-licensed East German pa
pers contended the western allies
have “backed down” in agreeing
to new Four-Power talks on the
German question.
Lifting the blockade brings up
the question of what will happen
to the giant allied airlift which
supplied western Berlin all these
months.
Gen. Lucius D. Clay said he has
received no instructions yet re
garding the air haul. The retiring
military governor said, however,
he expects the life to continue un
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til western Berlin has a stockpile
of 200,000 tons of supplies.
Air force officials in Washing
ton said the airlift probably will
be kept in standby condition in
Europe until it is reasonably cer
tain Russia has no plans to set. up
another sudden roadblock to Ber
lin.
U. S. defense secretary Johnson
issued a statement this morning
commending the men of the airlift
for carrying out ‘‘one of the great
e t transportation feats in the his
tory of the world.”
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Red Asiatics Sign
Alliance Against
“Imperialists”
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The communist radio in Peiping
announced six nationalist bomb
ers struck many an airfield near
Peiping, killing or wounding 20
persons.
Shanghai’s land and water
routes inland have been cut by the
Reds. For the first time in years
the Yangtze cornucopia, which
gushed inland merchandise into
Shanghai, was stopped up. As a
result the city’s markets were in
a chaotic condition. Chinese and
foreigners grumbled over the sit
uation which slowly choked off
the city’s industry.
One military observer in Shang
hai expressed the opinion the
Reds would leave Shanghai alone
and concentrate south and west of
the metropolis.
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