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Show Berlin Bids For Tourists Advertises Romance, Danger and Thrills BERLIN, Germany - Blockaded by the Russians and saved by the airlift only a little more than a year ago, Berlin now is vigorously competing for world tourist trade as the "international city behind the iron curtain today's most exciting ex-citing European capital." To push this campaign, Allied occupied oc-cupied west Berlin has produced one of the most alluring brochures m the history of tourism. It has the romance of Algiers' Casbah and Pepe Le Moko backed right off the map. It offers what no other city can advertise the dangerous thrill of being behind Joe Stalin's iron curtain, cur-tain, with safety. In fact, one of the chief advertised attractions is having your picture taken at the Red army memorial with a tommy-gun tommy-gun bearing Russian sentinel and tne challenge: "If you're lucky he might smile." What's more, west Berlin presents pre-sents itself as "the only place where you can meet your business friends or relatives from the Russian controlled con-trolled zone without hindrance and hear them recount their experiences under Russian dictatorship." The west Berlin brochure cover shows a blond beauty garbed in the flags of the west German federal republic and the four occupying powers, including the Soviet hammer ham-mer and sickle. The caption is: "Don't Miss Berlin." Ber-lin." Offered inside are the attractions of this quartered city. Tourists are reminded that they are allowed to enter the Russian sector if they want to leave the safer lures of Alhed west Berlin-and "there you will notice the vast contrast between be-tween 1 life in the western sectors !attas,pPartS r |