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John H. Ohly Oral History Interview
… -- the state-army-navy-air force coordinating committee (sanacc). some six months later, when the russians blockaded berlin, creating a grave international crisis and raising the specter of active military hostilities, forrestal himself did … economic recovery program. .among other things, the soviet [34] union had taken over control in czechoslovakia and the berlin blockade had been instituted. if you would talk to some of the people in eca who were stationed in paris during this … 10 andrews, stanley, 130-132 army, u.s., occupation authority in germany, 2-4 b bell, david, 9 bennett, henry g., 130 berlin blockade, 3 , 34 bingham, jonathan, 130 , 131 bissell, richard m., jr., 103 , 106 blum, robert, 29 , 30 , 115 bridges, …
Roger Tubby Oral History Interview
… say, in effect, well, by god, they thought the president had done the right thing on greece and turkey or iran or the berlin airlift, or whatever it might have been. and, "yes, he's done the right thing." but there was a refrain, i said, and … of state and defense because this was the period of the start of the marshall plan, and before i went over there, the berlin airlift and korea, so that he was very close to the secretaries of state and defense. hess: were there other men …
George C. McGhee Oral History Interview
… the soviets been a member. all of our other postwar efforts in which they participated made little progress. the regime of berlin is a very [14] good example. mckinzie: the way the marshall plan legislation was drafted, there was almost a …
Karl R. Bendetsen Oral History, November 21, 1972
… defense there was an awareness that the soviets were indeed testing our determination to stand by the continuity of west berlin during the first berlin crisis. was there a specific awareness in the pentagon that the soviet tests of our determination might shift from …
Edwin W. Martin Oral History Interview
… of got rid of that issue. but by that time our other talks had broken down. then in january of '54 there was a meeting in berlin which--and i forget the details of this, but anyway at that meeting it was decided to hold the conference in geneva on … walked out on me , and i think they did that just to pay us back. but, in that very same month, in january of '54, this berlin meeting had taken place in which they decided to have the geneva conference, so the conference on korea was set up …
Clayton Fritchey Oral History Interviews
… of action in one place and one time, a different kind in another time and another place. for instance, in the crisis over berlin, we could have resorted to force rather than the airlift. in greece we relied on military advisors and economic and …
Durward V. Sandifer Oral History Interview
… by everyone as being the adoption of that declaration. there were very important political questions going on; the berlin blockade for example, was in the security council and to some extent in the general assembly that year. there were … agreement that the approval of a declaration of human rights was the great achievement of that session. of course, the berlin blockade was also unraveled in the course of that period. mckinzie: did you have anything to do with the proposed … out" of positions when things were happening so rapidly? the marshall plan was being formulated and implemented; the berlin crisis was on. sandifer: those were handled by a different side of the department, the one i operated in. i think to …
Frank K. Kelly Oral History Interview
… kelly: he didn't mention korea, so maybe it hadn't happened. he mentioned the atom bomb, and his decision to stay in berlin when the soviets blockaded the city. johnson: yes, because after korea he said his major decision was korea. kelly: … 77-78 , 84 barriere, john, 39 , 60 , 66 , 67 batt, william, 32-33 , 39-41 , 43 , 45 , 48 , 52-53 , 62 , 67 bean, louis, 67 berlin blockade, 58 birkhead, ken, 29-30 , 32-35 , 41 , 48 , 60 , 75-76 , 96 birkhead, leon, 33 , 77 bolte, charles, 34 …
General Louis W. Truman Oral History Interview
… that's when i asked eisenhower about this thing. heck, we had everything going; given another day we would have been in berlin. and then he told me about yalta -- not me -- but the gathering there at lunch time. johnson: the russians did take terrific casualties, in taking berlin. truman: yes, they did. johnson: a very bloody battle. do you remember what he had [73] to say to you at all? …
John Franklin Carter Oral History Interview
… enormous that what you read in the old history books doesn't affect them too much. i suppose that his greek-turk aid, his berlin airlift, nato, must be considered as a very vigorous and honorable attempt to lead the country in the direction of …
John A. Kennedy Oral History Interview
… party for both groups in shanghai and came back by way of bangkok, cairo, and several other stops. we stayed a while in berlin with general lucius d. clay, which was a horrible sight because it had been damaged by both the british and american …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, October 9, 1970
… gave up. the bombing of london did not really resemble [15] what the u.s. air force and the british air force did later to berlin and some of the other german cities. i remember flying over, i think it was castell, a city in central germany, on the …
Henry L. Deimel Oral History Interview
… i remember once, for instance, that i was busy dictating an instruction, a memorandum, to go to our commercial attaché in berlin i think. it was on the subject of the duty on canned sardines. the german import duty on our sardines, which were a … his hands full with his own troubles, too. and, for instance, it was the deputy chief of mission, a man who came over from berlin, who did me the ruination, who prepared my efficiency report. now, here in washington, an efficiency report was the …
Robert G. Nixon Oral History Interview, November 5, 1970
… home, as i erroneously said yesterday. they were to be sent to germany. the cold war with russia, centered in occupied berlin, was going on very furiously at the same time the conflict was in korea. the threat of a war with russia was a …
Fraser Wilkins Oral History Interview
… did you ever feel at the time that you suffered from what might be called secretarial neglect? there was, after all, the berlin airlift going on in the middle of all of this; china was falling on the one hand; there was the domestic business with …
Abraham Feinberg Oral History Interview
… of arab assaults in 1922, 1929, and 1936. the arab leader, the mufti of jerusalem, had joined hitler and was living in berlin with a rather large complement of soldiers. he was certainly pro-hitler, the arab world was certainly pro-hitler, and …
Joseph D. Keenan Oral History Interview
… board, 1942; vice chairman, labor production, war production board, 1943-45; labor adviser to general lucius d. clay, berlin, germany, 1945-47; secretary-treasurer, building and construction trades dept. (afl), 1950-54; director, labor's …
James I. Loeb Oral History Interview, June 26, 1970
… war, and had no intimate knowledge of foreign policy, and yet he will be remembered in that field for the marshall plan, berlin, greece and turkey, and truman doctrine and so on and so forth. i may say, on the other hand, i think the one thing …
Frederick Osborn Oral History Interview
… with them. mckinzie: i was going to ask you if you could tell if the cold war and the events of the cold war, the berlin airlift, the soviet bomb, and the fall of china, and all of that was reflected in the way the members of the committee …
William J. Randall Oral History Interview, November 14, 1989
… somebody else, and they'd say, "i just came in from istanbul;" i'd see somebody else, who would say, "i just came in from berlin, or vienna." he had people invited from all over the world that night. johnson: what was the date of that? randall: in …
Edwin M. Wright Oral History Interview
… places these are found, numbers, the 34th chapter and so forth. one of the men whom i discussed this with was rabbi meyer berlin, the chief rabbi in the mizrachi group. these are the ultra-orthodox group, who accept the old testament literally. … 105 barkley, alben w., 48 , 49 baron, salo, 3 baruch, bernard m., 114 ben gurion, david, 9 , 13 , 16 , 39 , 46 , 52 , 124 berlin, meyer, 12 bevin, ernest, 107 bible (hebrew), ii , iii , iv , viii , ix , 12-15 , 60 , 61 biltmore convention, 39 …
John F. Melby Oral History Interview, November 28, 1986
… i told bob newman this story, and so help me, he discovered that eisler was dead, but that his widow was living in east berlin. she had taken over the editorship of the newspaper that he had been editor of, and she was still living. so he wrote …
Milton P. Kayle Oral History Interview
… i mean, with the idea of not getting soft. it was around the stuttgart-ulm area. johnson: did you ever get to berlin? kayle: i never got to berlin. i did get down to darmstadt. i was thinking of an excursion, you know, a sightseeing thing: darmstadt and stuttgart, …
George M. Elsey Oral History Interview, April 9, 1970
… whether mcintire did or not, of course, i have no way of knowing. hess: all right, the first one in the next box is on the berlin conference. i don't have any particular questions on this. it seems to be photographs and some newspapers . . . elsey: …
Samuel P. Hayes Oral History Interview
… have been talking to the political people who were worried about things like korea, who were worried about things like berlin, and who were beginning to talk about, although the word didn't come into being until some years later, "the northern …
Eugene Zuckert Oral History Interview
… hess: the same month as the korean invasion. zuckert: this was at the -- this was -- let's see. there had been the berlin airlift and we had the program of -- we'd gone on a program of basing bomber squadrons if i remember, bombers were …
John Wesley Jones Oral History Interview
… passed over. the germans didnt have; if they were loyal to anything, they were still loyal to hitler's government in berlin. mckinzie: to what extent did your division of the state department anticipate the dictation of italian forms, italian …
Nicholas G. Thacher Oral History Interview
… it was a series of events. the korean war, as naked communist aggression, was certainly a very important event, but the berlin blockade, the conquest of china by mao tse-tung, expansion of communist control in eastern europe and southeast europe …
Stanley Andrews Oral History Interview
… i was there 72 days when a call came from general clay. he said, "andrews, we've got to have you over here." this was from berlin. i said, "to hell with that, general clay, i've done my share, three years and nine months, and i'm through." "well," … dealt with. he was hard and he had great respect for authority. if mr. truman told general clay to jump through a hoop in berlin, he jumped through a hoop. he said when the commander in chief speaks we move. but with that integrity he was not …
Paul H. Nitze Oral History Interviews, August 5 and August 6, 1975
… states were: (a) an armistice in korea, (b) a peace treaty with austria, and (c) an improvement in relations vis a vis berlin and germany. if these three things could be one, then there was a great prospect for a relaxation of tensions and all … to the austrian peace treaty. it clearly did not carry on to any real improvement in the relations in germany or vis a vis berlin. that part of it did not mature. but the first two steps did mature. [309] fifth oral history interview with paul …
Francis O. Wilcox Oral History Interview, March 21, 1984
… the evaluation of the joint chiefs about our total military needs. the situation in europe was not easy at that time. the berlin airlift, of course, had been taken care of. the czech invasion had taken place earlier. but the soviet behavior was …
Charles Burton Marshall Oral History Interview
… war ii and in the immediate sequel. remember this. american policy was preoccupied with a lot of things in the world then: berlin, the future of germany, [61] aid to europe, and all that sort of thing. the president and the secretary of state … the place was divided just sort of absentmindedly after the war; we've got a divided austria, a divided germany, a divided berlin, a divided china, a divided korea. most of the population now is in this american part of it, and most of the …
James H. Rowe Oral History Interview
… [truman doctrine] -- maybe that saved the middle east. i'd put those as one and two. he was hardboiled, of course, about berlin at the right time, and he was a great man in this field i think. now domestically, until '48, he didn't have a …
Theodore Achilles Oral History Interview
… that required somewhat more precision. how about ships, aircraft, island possessions, occupation forces in west germany or berlin? article 6 spelled this out: for the purpose of article 5 an armed attack on one or more of the parties is deemed to …
Wallace H. Graham Oral History Interview
… i think that's in the other interview, so i won't go into detail on that. it was quite an experience; you went through berlin and saw all the devastated buildings and rubble. one of your soldiers went down into the bunker and came out with the …
Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 22, 1967
… who were fleeing communism. there were a lot of people coming out from the iron curtain countries, especially from east berlin, through east berlin of course, but also elsewhere, and the difficulty was that there was no good arrangement for handling them. i mean if …
Andrew J. Biemiller Oral History Interview
… their language they're going to listen. what the hell. these things you don't laugh off. fuchs: kennedy went over big in berlin by just a phrase. biemiler: "ich bin ein berliner." fuchs: they loved it. biemiller: sure. i mean this is just human …
Isaac N. P. Stokes Oral History Interview
… was not a real threat. again, of course, i didn't know. i have no doubt they were building up a huge army, and the berlin blockade indicated that they were prepared to do some fairly drastic things. i didn't question that some rearmament in …
Roberta Barrows Oral History Interview
… dean acheson was secretary of state, and the marshall plan in 1947 was being thought up and worked out, and the airlift to berlin started and things like that. truman came in at a terrible, terrible time. you have no idea how hard we worked. it was …
John P. McEnery Oral History Interview, March 11, 1970
… and we see what a mess the world is in today, it was much better to do it the way he did, [102] all the way from the berlin airlift to the stand we made in korea. when people read the history books and they know everything that was behind all …
Joseph D. Coppock Oral History Interview
… texas in may of 1948, when bedell smith, just back from moscow, had indicated there was going to be a relaxation of the berlin blockade. so i called back to the state department to find out anything beyond the press report, because i knew there …
J. Wesley Adams Oral History Interview
… issues. important in the sense that, in kashmir at least the fighting , had stopped. these two other issues were the berlin airlift and the arab-israeli fighting, which was at its peak during that summer. to cut through this, we drew up our …
Lincoln Gordon Oral History Interview
… another. he had other qualities like julius caesar. they could be a tremendous virtue in some circumstances, as during the berlin blockade. he was a very intelligent man, but a man of absolute firm resolve, once resolved on a course of action [165] …
The Truman White House Oral History Interview
… in the -- disregarding the yalta agreement and going into these countries like czechoslovakia and hungary, etc.; and the berlin airlift had to take place, you see, all of these were very traumatic incidents along about the time of the campaign. …
George L. McColm Oral History Interview
… our worry was that the russians would get to tokyo first and get [81] the rebellion organized. johnson: like they got into berlin. mccolm: yes. they had it set up, they had the people, and that was most disturbing to me, and i understand also to …
Clifford C. Matlock Oral History Interview
… now, up in washington. it's a private organization. mckinzie: but their stock seemed to rise in 1948 and 1949 after the berlin blockade and the clear need for something like nato. matlock: i thought hickerson reached his peak of influence almost …
Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 21, 1967
… fled the country, it was syria then, when the free french came in he had left with the germans, the nazis, he had gone to berlin and there he had sat out the war [279] as a propagandist, for the nazis propagandizing the arabs on behalf of the …
John H. Tolan, Jr. Oral History Interview
… shaef (supreme headquarters, allied expeditionary forces) in rheims, france. he refused to help the senators travel to berlin. but he had the top staff officers take us to his "war room" and give us the full story of the battle of the bulge. in …
Stephen J. Spingarn Oral History Interview, March 24, 1967
… say that the exploits of this remarkable little espionage outfit were going back all the way to the fuhrer in germany in berlin, and everybody was very proud of them, they were doing such a great, terrific job. but late in the war, toward the …
Ken Hechler Oral History Interview
… to supervise a 600-acre estate where my father was superintendent for clarence h. mackay, the father-in-law of irving berlin. johnson: what were the names of your parents? hechler: charles h. and catherine hauhart hechler. they were both very …