GERMANY: MAY DAY IN WEST AND EAST BERLIN

Record ID: 922350

  • Title: GERMANY: MAY DAY IN WEST AND EAST BERLIN
  • Date: 1st May 1963
  • Summary: 1. LV MASS RALLY IN WEST BERLIN 0.05 2. LV FLAGS 0.09 3. LV DAIS 0.11 4. GV SIGN 'BERLING GEHORT ZUR FREIN WELT' 0.15 5. CV & CU WILLY BRANDT AT RALLY 0.24 6. GV RALLY 0.27 7. LV DITTO 0.30 8. LV AND SV..MAN SPEAKING TO CROWD 0.36 9. GV CROWD 0.40 10. LV MAYPOLE 0.43 11. GV PAN UP FROM EAST GERMAN TROOPS GOOSE-STEP IN PARADE IN EAST BERLIN, PAN UP TO SIGN 'ES LESE DER I.MAI' 0.51 12. GV SCOUT CARS (TWO SHOTS) 0.59 13. LV AND GV..GUNS IN PARADE (TWO SHOTS) 1.09 14. SV CROWD APPLAUDS 1.11 15. LV TANKS 1.15 16. GV TANK 1.20 17. SCU GIRL WATCHING PARADE 1.23 18. LV'S ROCKETS IN PARADE 1.32 19. SV AUDIENCE APPLAUDS 1.33 20. LV PAN PARADE BY CIVILIANS, ASCENT OF BALLOONS 1.44 21. GV BALLOONS IN SKY 1.48 Initials JRG/S/MGT/PB PGR/S-O/MGT/EEH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: WEST AND EAST BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA1U4TM0JZT1RKCFOMF95V9FV8T
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: MAY DAY CELEBRATIONS IN A DIVIDED CITY - IN WEST BERLIN, MAYOR WILLY BRANDT GREETED LEADING CITIZENS AFTER ADDRESSING A RALLY ON REPUBLIC SQUARE.HALF A MILLION PEOPLE HAD HEARD HIM SPEAK WITHIN A FEW HUNDRED METRES OF THE COMMUNIST BUILT BERLIN WALL.

    HE SAID WEST GERMANS WOULD NEVER ACCUSTOM THEMSELVES TO THE DIVISION OF GERMANY AND TO THE BERLIN WALL.WEST BERLIN WORKERS CARRIED SLOGANS PROCLAIMING BERLIN BELONGS TO THE FREE WORLD.

    EARLIER, WEST BERLIN POLICE CONFISCATED 14 RED FLAGS AND THERE POSTERS PUT UP DURING NIGHT BY WEST BERLIN COMMUNISTS.

    ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL ABOUT TWO KILOMETRES AWAY (1 1/4 MILES) TANKS, ARMOURED CARS AND FACTORY WORKERS WERE ON PARADE - A PARADE THAT'S BEEN DENOUNCED BY THE THREE WESTERN COMMANDANTS AS A BLATANT MILITARISTIC DEMONSTRATION AND A RENEWED VIOLATION OF THE FOUR-POWER STATUS OF BERLIN.

    THE PROTEST FOLLOWED A MARCH ACROSS MARX-ENGELS SQUARE BY OVER 2,000 GOOSE-STEEPING TROOPS AND SOME 250 VEHICLES WATCHED BY THE AILING HERR OTTO GROTEWOHL, THE PRIME MINISTER, MAKING ONE OF HIS RARE PUBLIC APPEARANCES.HERR ULBRICHT WAS NOT THERE - HE IS ON A REST CURE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA.
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