Word: bizonia
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...British occupation authorities had sponsored the exhibition in an attempt to build up an export trade for their combined zones, called Bizonia. A breakdown of orders placed by the 1,500 foreign visitors showed 20% for automobiles and accessories. Only 20% went for toys, musical instruments and other small industry products...
Caught between U.S. free enterprise and British socialism, Bizonia's economy has combined the worst features of each. Its labor has no incentive to work; business has none to produce. Bizonia's military governors had a choice between free enterprise and the sort of strictly planned economy that the Russians have in their zone. Meanwhile, the displays at the Hanover Fair were only samples of a stalled production machine...
Germans did not seem inspired to cooperation by the creation of Bizonia. Recently, at a party rally, bumptious demagogic Social Democrat Kurt Schumacher had shouted: "We Germans don't want to sell ourselves to either side, not for the Potemkin promises of Marshal Zhukov nor for the CARE packages from America." Apparently the Germans were not yet ready to contribute anything to the future of Europe except hard words and the hope that they might translate U.S.-Russian division into German nationalist advantage...