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    "ocrText": "-7-\nGERMANY\nLifting of Berlin Blockade.- four-power communiqué issued on\nMay 5 contained formal announcement of the removal on May 12 of (1) the\nrestrictions imposed since March 1, 1948 by the Soviet Union on com-\nmunications, transportation, and trade between Berlin and the Western\nGerman Zones and (2) the similar restrictions imposed by the United\nKingdom and US between Berlin and the Eastern Zone and between the\nWestern and Eastern Zones. The communiqué fixed May 23 as the date\nfor a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in Paris \"to\nconsider questions relating to Germany, and problems arising out of\nthe situation in Berlin, including also the question of currency in\nBerlin. \" 18\nSecretary Acheson Ascribes Soviet Retreat to Blockade Failure.-\nThe lifting of the blockade puts us again in the situation in which we\nwere before the blockade was imposed and we must not regard it as\nhaving solved the German problem, Secretary Acheson told his press\nconference May 11. The blockade \"was an arbitrary and, in our view,\nan illegal measure\", he declared, and \"it has failed because they have\nindicated it was unsuccessful and because the countermeasures produced\ntheir effect. \" The Secretary said that whether a solution can be\nreached in Paris \"depends, of course, upon the willingness of the\nRussians to make or consider proposals which will not retard in any\nway whatsoever the great progress which has been made by the Western\nPowers\" in Germany. 19\nSecretary Acheson on Problems Facing CFM.--On the eve of his\ndeparture for the Paris meeting of the CFM (May 20), Secretary Acheson\nstated that the US representatives will approach the meeting with an\nopen mind and an honest intention to explore all possibilities of\narriving at a lasting solution of the problem of Germany, but\n\"It remains to be seen whether the present favorable\ndevelopments have brought about a situation in which workable\nand effective agreements can be reached with the Soviet Union\non the central problem of Germany. I think perhaps we have a\nbetter opportunity to do so than we have had before. We most\ncertainly are now in a better position to deal with the conse-\nquences of a failure. \"\n20\nFree University of Berlin Grows as a Counter-Soviet Move.--The\nstory of Soviet efforts during the occupation to rebuild the 150-year-\nold University of Berlin into a Communist school and the resultant\ndevelopment of the Free University of Berlin in the American sector\nis the-subject of an article reprinted by the Department of State in\nMay from the Information Bulletin of the US Military Government in\nGermany. The article relates the proposal of Soviet authorities to\n18\nBulletin, May 15, p. 631.\n19\nBulletin, May 22, p. 662.\n20\nBulletin, May 29, p. 675.."
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