GERMANS CHEER FORTHRIGHT SPEECH
LGNDQN, July 11. Tlie Russian colossus wquIcI be halted in JBerlin, said Ilerr Ernst Reuter, the dennan Social Demaerat, addressing a Sociinist mass meeting in the American Zone. Ilerr Reuter was elected Mayor of Berlin at the last municipal ffiectiqns but could not take offi.ce hecause the Eussians refused to acknowledge him. "We shall put the hrake on Russian amhitions with our hodies, even if we are destroyed in the act," he said. "We Germans want to be a free ana independent people. The fight put up by the Berliners has hound the Western Allies to stay in Berlin and they cannot 110 w hand us over to a unilateral dictatorship. ' ' The methods the Russigns are uping 111 Berlin today arc qnly an itnproyed version of the methods which the Nazis used lor 12 years. The Western Allips 111 ihe past. three years have mqde rein ,u aiter retreat tn Germany, hut the No,cs they have sent to Moscow show dei.'urnination to lorce a decision in tiunr lavour. The whole technicgi stidiigih oi the Western world will be oiivTutrated on Berlin. Moscow undersiumls lr.nguage like this." A crowd of 20.Q0G cheered Herr Renter for five minutes.
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 July 1948, Page 5
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