Word: bizonia
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Ruhr coal was coming out of the ground at a postwar record of 254,000 tons daily; aside from food imports, Bizonia had a favorable trade balance during the past year...
...clear, unequivocal answer to Soviet attempts to scuttle the European Recovery Program. For the 40 million Germans of Bizonia's eight states, General Lucius D, Clay, the U.S. commander, outlined a new form of economic government. The new government would have a two-house legislature, a six-member cabinet, a chief executive. It would have a central bank to issue currency and control credit. Its powers would be exercised through economic courts backed up by occupation armies. The goal: a beefing up of Bizonia's limping production. "These are proposals," said Clay, "not a dictate...
...next spring, General Clay hoped, the new plan-and Bizonia's production-would be rolling. An important anchor had been planted for the future stability of the European Recovery Program...
...question still unanswered was how much control over Bizonia's occupation policies Congress would demand in return for more U.S. dollars. Looking for a compromise which would keep both Congress and the British happy, the conferees had one big point to make. Britain will still maintain the bulk of her 200,000-man occupation army in Bizonia, thus precluding the necessity for sending any more U.S. troops...
...masters of Bizonia ... we are so closely enmeshed with Britain in Germany that these blunders cannot be absolved as unilateral. Neither partner retains the right to make mistakes of this dimension on our common ground: our Allied reputation in Germany...