TRANSPORT INTO BERLIN
TAX IMPOSED BY COMMUNISTS
BERLIN, Sept. 2. The American High Commission today branded as a flagrant and discriminatory new Communist move to strangle Berlin the tax on German vehicles bringing food from West Germany into Berlin The commission added that steps would be taken to counter the new moveThe tax, suddenly imposed on Saturday, applies to all West German and West Berlin vehicles using the 100mile road linking Berlin with the Western zones. A third of the food supplies for West Berlin’s 2,250,000 residents come by this road. The commission said: “This new move, the latest in a long series of repressive Communist measures, is aimed at starving millions of men, women, and children in free Berlin. It shows the hypocrisy of the Soviet talk about peace and freedom, which was the slogan of the recent Communist world youth festival. That this is an arb’trary. obstructive measure is fully illustrated by its sudden imposition without warning." The commi sion declared that the Communists’ move would fail, just as all previous Communist attempts to cut off Berlin had failed.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26517, 4 September 1951, Page 7
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