lin (General Lucius Clay), and by the ideologi cal contest between between capitalism and communism, which, in the late 1940s, was once again reaching full bloom, following a dormant period during which both sides were more concerned with the Nazis than with one another (Kennan, 1967).
The currency reform issue took center stage in 1948, because it was the first step in a policy implementation by the Western Allies, the goal of which was the creation of a unified political state from the American, British, and French Occupa tion Zones in Germany (Kennan, 1967). Berlin assumed a special significance in this policy implementation, because (1) the Western Allies intended to make the city a part of the new West German
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