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Wednesday, December 21, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Almost Daily Incidents in Berlin Raise Question of New Blockade
By JOSEPH FLEMING
Berlin (U.R) Is West Berlin
4n peril again?
Do the almost daily incidents,
the arrests, riots, Communist
threats to seal oft the city and
the Sovereignty" given the East
Germans mean the Reds are get
ig, ready for a showdown to
to push out the Americans,
Btetish and French?
TEb correspondent .has been
posted in rseriin much of the
time nee World War II, and
frankly I don't know.
No one on tJ Western side
professes to know, but certainly
there are siens in the threats
and tersjbns of the past few
weeks which igriicate that the
west may be faced again with
the blockade it broke seven
years ago only through the mir
acle of the airlift aijd the spend
ing of millions of dollars. Is the
West capable of mounting an
other airlift? '
The ajgwer to that is an em
phatic yes!
ne man who ran the 1948-49
(Jjjjijft was Gen. William H. Tun
jier: Now he is commander of
the U. S. r Force in Europe.
Tunner, asked about the pos
s.'btfAy of a new air" lift, said
"We are ready to do anything
ithin our capabilities that our
newtouartexs orders us to do."
Asked itJthe capabilities in
cluded mounting an airlift, he
A$e Livq
By J.fSftMTH HlLOOC. PH.D.
Parent can be badly hurt by
theirchildren. However, when
a$t) emergency arises, the chil-
come to the
rescue, in spite
of what they
may have said.
(Q) "Five
years ago, my
daughter
w$i married,
9 ho rtly' afler
Dr. JfJorjMfc thif cme
home; ft oi IhSSr Redding trip
her 'feiwttnii 5id, 'It is not the
daivghtg! f utf to 1gJe cre of
ner EfHtaJf tn ihT old.
It is W$pTtg duty.' I -as ter
riblv hurt nd mor so when
mydaughitr agrd rith her
husband.
"Just last $-eeip, when toe
were at their home, the husband
said the same thing and my
daughter agreed with him again.
My husband was so hurt and
angry that he put on his hat,
walked out, and said he ovculd
never 'go to their home again.
We" are comfortable and there
is no thought in our minds we
-will ever have to call on them
for help. We have two sons and
another daughter but they do
not mie these remarks. We
feel her husband has influenced
Iter this w3y as she was suh a
cO civoted daughter before she
igarried." D.E. .
(Ai There is no question that
jfeir daughter has been influ
enced y her husband to believe
your srms should be responsible
for you and your husband in
your old age, should the neces
sity arise. He, unquestionably,
wants you to understand now,
before the time arrives, that
you cannot expect to receive any
help from him rr will his home
be open to you. o
It is certainly most unforru
they have taken this stand
ariS hav? made it soclear how
thegj feel. Naturally you and
your husbaOd are hurt and re
sentful. HoweTer, you need not
worry too much as .you can
count on the0help of your other
child0rejn, should the need ever
arise.
You should not let this pass
with just hurt feelings on your
part. Instead, you should make
a point of informing them that
you and your husband have
given serious thought to their
remarks whicjh, you assume,
expresPtheir true feeling about
you. Then pSint out that you
feel justified in iving sny help
you can, eitb i money or id.
to yemr otht cillrtn rather
than to them. Sos't lift t finger
to help this uhtr inS her
husband in anp taierfency they
have unless tr.$y iftinjt thir
tune about you.
(Copyright
General Features Corj.)
answered "Yes
Some aviation authorities as
sert a new air lift would be even
more successful and easier to
mount than the last one when,
from June, 1948, to May, 1949,
the American and British air
forces carried in 2,243,301 tons
of food and other supplies on
277.264 flights.
The Air Force now is better
equipped. It has better guidance
systems, better radar, more sup
plies. New high altitude trans
ports such as the C118 and C132
could fly faster and above the
weather.
But there are hitches. Back in
1948 the 2,000,000 West Ber
liners in this outpost 110 miles
inside Russian-occupied territory
were barely existing and the
problem was merely to keep
West Berlin alive.
Now the city has considerable
prosperity. Businesses have been
re-established which must have
contact with the outside to sur
vive. Precious Lift No Victory .
Then, too. it would appear un
likely that the Russians, having
been beaten once by an airlift,
would , permit another blockade
of Berlin without taking counter
measures.
Some American military men
have long felt that the 1948 air
lift, while a logistic miracle,
was no victory for the West.
One who holds that view is Brig.
Gen. Frank L. Howley who was
American commandant in Berlin
under military governor Gen.
Lucius Clay.
Howley put it this way:
"If I try to get in the front
door of my house and some fel
low stands in front with a club
and dares me to try and get in,
it is not a victory if I go around
to the back, climb the garden
fence and then go in the kitche
window.
"Yes, I'm in the house all
right. But I didn't go in the way
I had every legal right tofjse.
That's no victory."
So a question facing the Allies
now in case' of another blockade
is "Do, we go in throu$i the
front door?"
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