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POSSIBILITY THAT THE ALL I ES OR . FEQ~RAL· GOVERNM~NT' MI GMT ' STOP OTHER FORTHCOMING BERLIN EV ENTS ISUCH AS TAG O~~ ~~IMATI THE -OCTOBER BUNDESTAG WORK 'wEEK A~D CDU ~oNVENTIONI). ;VEN BEFORE THE CZECH INTERVENT~ON A NUMBER OF OUR BES! " CONT~ers HAD BEEN OF THE Op .IN I ON THAT B~RL.l. N MORALE' HAO NEVER1 B~E~ AS LOW1 IN ANY tASE FOR SOME YEARS. A FE!~~NG OF "RESIGNATION" SEEMED WI DES PRE AD 1 TOGETHER. WI TH A CONVICT I ON THA r· THE BER~IN SITUATION WAS SLOWLY BUT SURELY OETERIQRATiNG• A LOSS OF CONFIDENCE IN THE ALLIE~, PARTi~~LARLY. THE UNJ~ED STATES1 WAS APPARENTLY A MAJOR FACTOR IN THIS DETERIORATION
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3• IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT THE CZECH INTERVENTION HAS: ONL..Y' FURTHER ACCENTUATED TH~S UNHAPPY PICT0RE• IN PARTl~U~AR1 -MAN~ ­BERLINERS SEEM . TO FEAR THE .. UNITED STAT~$ iS NO L.ONGER WILLING 
Tb STAND FIRM IN THE DEFENSE OF THE CITY AND IN susr~IN1NG 
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4. BERLIN MORALE Is OBV I oUsL y OF GREAT I MPORTANCE I TO THE us AND ITS ALL1rs. BERLINERS-AR~ OB~i~ED TO RECOGNilE OUR' AUTHOR I TY HERE1 BUT IF THEY COME TO DO so· MORE ANDI MPRE GRUDGINGLY AND wITH DECREASING coNFIDENcE, THE AL~aEs AND wE COU~D ONE DAY FIND OURSELV~S ~~RGE~Y I~RELEVANT T~t EWEN~S IN BERL.JN• THOUGH WE ARE STILL A LONG WAY1 WE TRUST, FROM THIS POI~T, DEVELOPMENTS OVER T~E L.~ST.. FEw MONfHS c~~TAlNLV SUGGE~T· WE ARE MOVING IN nus DIRE~TIQN. ---~ -' 
5• A FURTHER DIFFICULTY RESULTS FROM THE LACK OF STRONG POL IT I CAL LE ADE RSH IP.-BERC IN .BACL.rf NEEDS ' ANOTHER ERN r· REUTER oR w1LLr BRANDT, wHo cAN IMPART coNFIDENcE AND ESTAB~ISH A STRONG BOND WITH ITS POPULATION• OESPaTE SCHUETZ' Aa 1c1r1 Es, N~1THER t:iE NoR ALBERrz -HAVE ENJovEo THE:1Kii ~o· oF · C~0 ~E RAPP 0 RT WI TH THE P0P~LAT.I.0N AN 0 AB I L.1 
TY T01 i NS P JRE TRUST AND HOPE , WHICH BOTH REUTER AND BRANOT DEMONS!rR~TEO SO NOTABLY OURl~G PREWiOus BE~LIN DIE~~cuL1TiES• ­
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