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  • To digress for a moment, the Berlin Airlift is an excellent thing for civil aviation.

    International Aviation—An Empire Tie 1949

  • Gentlemen, the Airlift is a very costly operation-very costly.

    Where the Iron Curtain Falls 1949

  • His perspective on foreign affairs is Panglossian, as diversely illustrated by his reduction of the Berlin Airlift to an example of the peoples of the world coming together to deal with a crisis, his insistence that we can hold fruitful negotiations with the Iranian mullarchy, and his tepid initial reaction to the Russian invasion of Georgia.

    Elections 2006/2008 2009

  • Instead of retreating into isolationism, as the U.S. had done after World War I, America's presidents led the nation through the many global crises and challenges that ensued, with some disasters but on the whole, many successes -- from the Berlin Airlift to peace in Bosnia.

    Nigel Hamilton: American Caesars Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • Those years saw the division between East and West Berlin, the Berlin Airlift, the depredations of the East German secret police, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and at last the city's, and the country's, reunification.

    Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • Instead of retreating into isolationism, as the U.S. had done after World War I, America's presidents led the nation through the many global crises and challenges that ensued, with some disasters but on the whole, many successes -- from the Berlin Airlift to peace in Bosnia.

    Nigel Hamilton: American Caesars Nigel Hamilton 2010

  • Israel would more than likely do mini Berlin Airlift ops from Jolly Greens or some such.

    Let Go | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Those years saw the division between East and West Berlin, the Berlin Airlift, the depredations of the East German secret police, the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and at last the city's, and the country's, reunification.

    Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • Meant to be one of the centerpieces of Germania, Hitler's future capital, but actually completed by the Americans who used it as an army base, the site of the Berlin Airlift and photo-ops of arriving Hollywood stars, this mythic “inland sea with the yearning for faraway places” is now on the hands of voters who will decide today whether to keep it open or close it.

    Prunings XLII 2008

  • They sought to revive the spirit of NATO, the Berlin Airlift and the Marshall Plan for a new era and a new war against extremism.

    Bush Also Addresses U.S. Role in the World - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

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