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West and Berlin
That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain, France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other West German officials to West Berlin.
One ground of action certainly exists when fusillades of stray shots go over into West Berlin as Communist `` vopos '' try to gun down fleeing unarmed residents.
Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.
Meanwhile, in Moscow, Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal to 100 million tons of TNT, to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can't see the justice of surrendering West Berlin to communism.
West Germany will face the crucial tests that lie ahead, on Berlin and unification, with a coalition government.
He is dedicated to building the nation's strength and, as are all West Germans, to a free Berlin and to reunion with captive East Germany.
If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.
`` The U.S. President has shown once again that the United States needs the fanning of the West Berlin crisis to justify the armaments race.
`` U.S. pressure on Britain to foster war hysteria over the status of West Berlin has reached its apogee.
Kennedy knows the West will not wage war for West Berlin, neither conventional nor nuclear, and negotiations will come as certainly as the peace treaty.
Well, dear listeners, despite all the shouting, there will be no war over West Berlin ''.
The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.
West Berlin morale is low and, in age distribution, the situation is unfavorable.
R. H. S. Crossman, M.P., writing in The Manchester Guardian, states that departures from West Berlin are now running at the rate not of 700, but of 1,700 a week, and applications to leave have risen to 1,900 a week.
The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

West and crisis
The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).
During the Suez crisis, Nehru's right hand man, Menon attempted to persuade a recalcitrant Gamal Nasser to compromise with the West, and was instrumental in moving Western powers towards an awareness that Nasser might prove willing to compromise.
According to John Iliffe, " The worst crises were in the 1680s, when famine extended from the Senegambian coast to the Upper Nile and ' many sold themselves for slaves, only to get a sustenance ', and especially in 1738 – 56, when West Africa's greatest recorded subsistence crisis, due to drought and locusts, reportedly killed half the population of Timbuktu.
According to the same program, the crisis committee delegated to make decisions on how to deal with the incident consisted of Bruno Merk ( the Bavarian interior minister ), Hans-Dietrich Genscher ( the West German interior minister ) and Manfred Schreiber ( Munich's Chief of Police ); in other words, two politicians and one tactician.
Despite facing an oil crisis due to the OPEC embargo, the economy of Japan witnessed a large boom in this period, overtaking the economy of West Germany to become the second-largest in the world.
There was also the economic fallout on West Germany of the 1973 oil crisis, which almost seems to have been enough stress to finish off Brandt as the Chancellor.
The Russian crisis caused alarm in the West.
At the time, the UK was in the grip of a recession, as a result of the early 1970s energy crisis caused by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ' oil boycott of the West in the aftermath of the 1973 Arab – Israeli War.
In Iran, the crisis strengthened the prestige of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the political power of those who supported theocracy and opposed any normalization of relations with the West.
But the oil crisis gradually saw many West European car buyers move away from larger, less economical cars.
Abroad, the split with China, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban missile crisis hurt Khrushchev's prestige in his own country, and his efforts to improve relations with the West antagonized many in the military.
In March 2004, a grand jury returned a six-count indictment against Reliant Energy Services, Inc. and four of its officers — Jackie Thomas, a former vice president of Reliant's Power Trading Division ; Reggie Howard, a former director of Reliant's West Power Trading Division ; Lisa Flowers, a term trader for Reliant's West Power Trading Division ; and Kevin Frankeny, Reliant's manager of western operations — for their alleged role in the California electricity crisis.
The term bushmeat crisis tends to be used to describe unsustainable hunting of often endangered wildlife in West and Central Africa and the humid tropics, depending on interpretation.
In the episode " Shutdown " of The West Wing, a budget crisis situation like the 1995-1996 federal government shutdown was depicted when Josiah Bartlet and Republican Speaker of the House Haffley disagree over budget cuts and shuts down the government for a number of days.
This crisis revealed that a heterogeneous four-party coalition, broadly in agreement about aligning the country with the West but divided over personal rivalries and policy details, lacked control over key parts of a bureaucracy unreformed since communist times.
However, Alex and Ariane quickly find her, take her home, and show her a fake special report that East Germany is now accepting refugees from the West following a severe economic crisis there.
In 1965 new waves of arrests of CPI ( M ) cadres took place in West Bengal, as the party launched agitations against the rise in fares in the Calcutta Tramways and against the then prevailing food crisis.
The novel was influenced by the heightened atmosphere of the Cold War, with its escalating series of international crises such as the U-2 incident ; West Berlin ; unrest in Hungary, Indochina, Congo, and Latin America ; and the Cuban missile crisis.
The LB & SCR system in West Sussex was largely completed by 1870 except for a link between Midhurst and Chichester, which had been delayed by the financial crisis of 1867 ; this was revived and opened in 1881.
The West End 2 beach has been closed since April 2009 because of the state fiscal crisis and will remain closed through 2010.

West and is
Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??
what is new and compelling is that the West is now but one of several powerful civilizations, or `` systems '', and that one or more of the others may pose a mortal danger to the West.
That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.
The wizard who fashioned West Germany's astonishing industrial rebirth is the soul of free enterprise.
The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.
They are less vocal now, when it is the West Berliners who are migrating.

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