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My Berlin
Berlin, May 13. CUT myself badly threa times while shaving this morning; this is a most unusual thing. I can only assume that it is safer to shave by a flickering candle than by electric light. For this morning the electric light was on at shaving time for the first time in ten months.
When I went into the bath room, I made the mistake habit it the candle. Then I remembered. The blockade was over. The light toas on. I turned the switch and it worked.
No doubt I was not the only
.So many times you find yourself saying: "Why, it's nearly a year since.......
by SELKIRK PANTON
Day
Germant
3: Grote, aur German mald, with each of the four Powers had celebrated her own block- vying to treat their ade-lifting. She had turned on well. the light over the front door, and we saw it shining as wa came home.
We turned on all the lights- I had no wish to sleep. With the lights still on it seemed 100 early to go to bed.. For so long
130: Lunch at the club, packed with old friends and "Berlin evacuees," who came back down the autobahn,
People said.
one to cut himself this morning they had been turned off at 11 WE blockade-hardened "Ber-
p.m.
I am told that the Red Army Boldiers, who, at midnight last night, sat at their Berlin auto- 4: To bed, with the luxury bafin check-point surrounded by of turning the light out from empty vodka bottles, had a
the bedside, instead of puffing pretty bad hangover today.
candle.
r
First moment
was with them that my first
moment Berlin started.
in
blockade-free
And it started well with the Red Army "rogskles," whom I first met at the East-West Link- up at Torgau on the Elbe on April 25, 1045. Then we carved Hitler's Relch in two. It seems a long, long uma ago....
Today went like this:-.
00,01 -HE. (Which to you means one minute past mid- night): Out at the British check-
T
Cable-letter from New York THOSE FLYING SAUCERS
By FREDERICK COOK
of
New York.*. For a weekly charge of £1 38," HE U.S. Air Force now 6d, mother's bottle-fed say officially that Flyables in four out of five New York boroughs may now have ing Saucers are not a joke. their Infants formulas scienti Almost in the same breath fically prepared and delivered they add that though Tineach morning like the family. explanation has been found
milk.
Every member of the stoff for about 40 percent of the of A now laboratory In phenomena reported, from Brooklyn offering this service various parts of this coun- is a certificated nurse with the
exception of try, there is no cause for all of whom are doctors
department heads, alarm; é
Regular Inspections are car- ried out by the Stáléd health -The Air Force have been authorities.--5 investigating Flying Saucer Formulas forwarded elther by
reports for almost two years family doctors or by mothers
in great detail. They agree that most of the people who
are fled in a card-index system, ty, and any special ingredients.
noting time of delivery, quanti-
swear they saw something, Subscribing mothers may, if actually did.
they wish, provide the delivery mon with a key so that he cam the kitchen refrigerator... put the formula straight
The things they saw were mostly birds, aircraft, meteors, balloons and "test ing devices" ́ ́ (no ·further details).
GOING FURTHER
The correct identification ON the adult level,
Into
house-
·keeping, money is now-a?
of things seen by the, re- last-going- much further than
Food that cost:42 105 Inst now for £2.
The first German lorry which maining percentage of the it did. cama. - down the autobahn to people who made reports is summer Bella Berlin brought cucumbers. The still the task of Project Furniture is cheaper and so are Accond brought ties. Both re- Saucer, Division of Intelli- clothes. ceived a prize of 100 maringence. (£7-108), bottles of wine, and other presents.
4: Spent a few minutes by
myself trying to realise that 1 |SING-SING OVERCROWDED 'had to adjust my life to the new conditions-just like most Berliners.
.
Celebrations
MADE plans
He has
Statisticians, estimate that Americans can now eat live meals for what four used to cost them. Foods are cheaper In every major city,
Dwindling food caste are leading to expanding sales of household
Ilko appliances vacuum cleaners, electric tonsters, refrigerators, sewing machines and dishwashing
R William Snyder, Warden of Sing-Sing Prison, says the population of his establish. ments has overflowed. 1825 inmates-three more than machines, for the Im-there is cell-room for. mediate future-go back to the zone and bring back my car But no "guests" will be turned and Bingo, who were, cut off away. They will be accommo- when the blockade came down. (dated in the segregation build- Bluge was only a puppy then.ings unill cells become vacant. Now he is a great hulking koxer,
5: Tens
of
thousands of V liners" laughed at the girl Berliners Recked to a "victory" reporter said to the waiter: "I think I munists to
from the West who meeting of Berlin's anti-Com- will have an ice-cream. None of the blockade.
celebrate the lifting
of that stuff in Berlin.
Received an invitation from a senior British official to a party. A colleague asked his newly tonight. The invitation rend:
· 4.45: The telephone. "The arrived wife: Did you bring the tor mutual congratulation on Arst British military train from-anti-fien powder for the "dog?
and will arrive an hour earlier."-What' is all
•
TOO MANY, NYLONS
factories have closed.
Three factors are blamed. Too
NEW TO THEM.
HOUSANDS of American in
the Middle. West who until recently hardly ever ale a piece of salt-water fish learning to like it now,
pre
A The reason: the new quick- MERICA'S booming, nyton frozen foods. Fish on offer. In- industry has made so many markets hundreds of miles market is from the coast stockings that the
was often so flooded. Prices are falling, pro- its have dwindled, and some unappetising.
in appearance that few people would have it. the West is ahead of schedule A British girl in riding habit: the lifting of the bockade."
But I think shall go home
Today's neatly-packed and the crowd here instead. It is pleasant with the many firms in the business; new hard-frozen fillets which will 6: The telephone:"The train To the answer: "The lights on. The candles and from the West has slowed up. lgckade has been lifted," she matches are still dotted over the machines make stockings faster; stay fresh for months it neces
yes," and house. We are
nylon gives stockings too long asary-are starting a new, food keeping the 6.45: "It is running on time." gave a bored "Oh,
went off to ride.
candles-just in case.
(Quality nylons selling at. fashion in the West. 7.30: The train has arrived" There was little talk of the
12s. 6d, a pair October. are -London Express Service), now marked Us. Od.) 8.15: Again the telephone. An actual lifting of the blockade. unknown voice: "Could you give me a Press ticket for the o'clock meeting of the West Berlin City Council?"
I gave it up and got up."
Anhaller 11.30: Off to the
point-in-a-Leicester Square Station in the US. sector, on Alm premiere blaze. The Bri- the border of the Russian tee
9
life.
-(London, Express Service).
Having a 'national' baby
Y
London:-
lish raised their barrier, sight- tor, to see the first freight tra▼OU'LL get no pri-
Excited Berlinote in. seers were spilled off the wings, cheered. All the buildings and
a German thrust a bunch of Hinc on the bonnet, and
Wo
come
trams were bedecked with the me.
were off down the autobahn to black, red, gold fing of the pre-won't belong to you, Hitler Welmar Republic. the West.
1 AM: Drove to seo the lights in Berlin's Piccadilly-the Kurfurstendam with Its ground-floor rash of showy luxury shops.
The lights were on, but how pitiful! Odd ones dotted hero
The symbol
HIS flag in Berlin today Is the one symbol of any sien of unity between East and West
Germany.
or
For by good fortune and there threw the ruins into design, the Communists in the more ghastly shadows, with the East have chosen it for their night folk fiting from shadow People's
Lights blazed
Council.
by SARAH CAMPION
The State paid specialists, BUT....
geons, doctors to attend us, nurses
vacy," friends warned "Even your baby
for another unteachable nit-wit; the they take it away except hospital staff
had assorted when it's being fed. You'll methods, but most seemed to
favour the approach-scortul get no privacy at all."
We were an odd bunch, there in Ward B. Two of us had pro duced first-borhs who lay in clean the wards cribs beside us looking hideous, for but wonderful to their mums.
In brief,
They were right-but it didn't matter. Certainly, after nine days in a maternity hospital,
to wait upon us, cleaners
for us.
to
tho
under the new national health
A third mother had a ten- State paid us to scheme, you have shed most of week-premature son who was have babies, and your modesty, and are likely to the
survived. He lived in on should be. in your arms, come away with a stranger-baby the pride of the place, in that that is as it And the
oxygen tent, and was worship- But certainly to shadow, or standing under Western politicians have chosen
like some But maybe it was only false ped through glass
we had no pri- rationed foods, the lamps, according to their it for their embryo West Germodesty you shed; maybe you
_vacy. whilo profession.
man Republic.
A fourth had twin toddler guinea-pigging have sense enough, in the years Bacad, to make up to your child boys at home; now she had a for the State. 12.30
PAL: Drove back to for these nine days lost in hos girl, and smiled all day at the Even schoolgirls.
sector through the pital. the British
thought of her,
were lot loose Russian sector. Noticed again
upon us trooping In опо ·morn- that strange, Intangible differ ence between the East and West
Ing unannounced, the way there were circling us sectors. Every time I have a when you decided to have your two be anay and feeling that I have driven hun-baby in hospital, in the best pos erbs: the mothers were as yet trooping
two empty nudging silence, sibis conditions, at the State's babyless, bere for observation, expense,
and often bered to tears with I won't say I enjoyed hos- waiting. pital, but it taught me a great "deal.
Why should they worry? The How to make a mother State, that took away so much sure that she can produce the
THE Brandenburg Gate, on the boundary between the Bri- tish and Russian sectors, was quiet, with the Hammer Sickle floating over it.
The Bussians had just with drawn the German police' guards. The usual bright lights blazed
the 'Russian
over
stead of only
dreds of miles to the East, in
a few yards, na' though the Soviet had Russian- ised their Germans.
But in the East as in
the
And maybe, also, you weren't such a fool as to expect privacy
Across
gain
ita
out
sadly by
In
grizzled about this, groused about that. Every now. and then a nurse 'our stung by complai | n- would round upon us and tell us har ¿own. troubles, thus taking the wind. of Lis for several rainutes. But We were toon back again
out
at our grumb- linge
against the food, the staff, the Sys- tain.
vastelve
I came out of hospital deter mined this t nothing save dira pecu shall make me have a second baby there. Yet I am very
gind the frat was born
30.
bewlidered
The best of skilled care was the riddle of the empty cots..
As for the students, they worn mine when
I needed it most,
selves. And we were very rude The best of skilled core, devpied memorial, with its lono tommy. Western sector, I found the perfect baby-that we learnt in of our privacy, paid us to walk. a League of Nations in them- and that again is as it should be The State gave us free vita about them, when they had and unstinting, from the best of gunner guard in the Tiergarten. Berliners still sceptical. They the anto-natal clinic, bearing mins
shared my feeling of anu-
mins 'during pregnancy, oursuives proudly, luhaling con- 1.45: The first "Westerners" climax. Nine out of ten arendence from those about us.
and prodded at us and gone away specialista: food which, though Juice which w cheap
duller than ditchwater, did at prange
We had little else to do all cast keep the body going:and stormed into central Berlin convinced that the Paris talks
had to keep away from father by car. The niggling doubt, will end in failure and
How to make a mother feel a lest h's enthusiasm for concoct day save gossip and grumble, the heartening surely that the the fear of the last-minute Russians will clamp down, the nuisance, and not a necessary ing new and astonishing drinks we lay, there casting suspicion aayiring were to go wrong with "misunderstanding"- began to blockade again.
one either that I learnt from a should run away with bis con on Slater's Intelligence, doctor's me or with the baby, wo were ebb. There was excited talent.
pretty little chit of a nurse was cern for posterity. The State skul
in the best possible plats to liave phoning, with bells ringing: It is partly wishful thinking, disliked my watching while she lodged and boarded, us, here in We surp
We were each worth We suspected that the food it dealt with A CHANGE "RACHEL and the STRANGER" where and all the lights For the Germans, and parl-bathed my child, and curtly bade hospital.
on. Bandwiches and coffee-egg cularly. the politicians of East mo draw the cubicle curtains, £1 of the State's money when in the Paying Ward was better Blow privroy, Bay 1 These sandwiches* (somebody had and West," Zear, a complete four- How to make a mother feel we got out, more I we had to than ours (and why not?): wo other things are more important, brought eggs from the West). Power agreement on Germany. that she's a goddess how to stop work or pay someone to suspected that the nurses also a more necessary.
They thrive on Allied disunity, make her feel that she's only look after our homes.
were better. Then home.
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