Lucius Clay

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Meanwhile, Anthony Eden arrives in the German capital for an emergency meeting, as does the French military commander, General Koenig.

Later, America's General Lucius D. Clay, speaking for the Western Allies, announces their decision.

We have a right to be in Berlin, and we intend to maintain that right.

But how? Ask freedom-loving people the world over and anxiously await the answer.

How did they even pull it off?

The military governor, General Lucius Clay, realized that while the Soviets controlled the ground, the West had legally negotiated three 20-mile-wide air corridors into Berlin in 1945.

So they owned the airspace.

Right.

Air and Space Forces magazine records that those two million people needed thousands of tons of food and fuel every day, and that the city held only weeks of critical supplies.

General Lucius Clay wrote that Berlin had become a symbol of the American intent.

Picture Tempelhof Airfield at night.

Transport planes stand in a line with their lights on.