Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltic to the Alps, the "chicken-wire fence," which split but did not sever the East & West zones, became the newest extension of the Iron Curtain, and a bristling military frontier. Where there had been a steady if illegal trickle of East-West trade, now there was an absolute barrier, charged with electric hatreds, and ominously reminiscent of Korea's 38th parallel...
South of Travemünde, the eleventh meridian lances through fir-tufted hills. With Teutonic thoroughness, the Reds have driven a 33-ft. strip of plowland through villages, fields and farmyards. On the highways the new divide is a steel barrier, or a deep-dug ditch; sometimes, it is a sea of soft sand, carefully smoothed so as to catch the footprints of all who try to pass. Heavily armed Vopos glare across the meridian at the outnumbered West German guards. Behind them in the Communist hinterland is silence and fear...
...farm wagons, and stealthily made off into West Germany. Only one old man stayed behind. He watched the Vopos searching the houses, then asked permission to cross the line to persuade his neighbors to return. Once safely in the West, he tacked a note on the frontier barrier: "I talked to the Liebauers. They are not coming back. Neither...
Cabinet officials were also asked other questions related to worldwide exchange of information and ideas. More than half believed that censorship of news at the source was a leading barrier to the world's mutual exchange of information. Listed next in order were the control of information media by interests, trade restrictions special
Next to Russia's Iron Curtain, Red China's bamboo fence is the most impenetrable political barrier in the modern world. Recently, Communist Dictator Mao Tse-tung offered to let 14 Indian observers peek behind the fence (India had allowed a Red Chinese "good will" mission to visit New Delhi last year). Prime Minister Nehru, who is fascinated by the New China, gladly sent the mission, but carefully staffed it with cool-headed observers whose impressions he could trust, as he no longer trusts his credulous ambassador, K. M. Panikkar, now recalled home. As chief delegate he chose...