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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this end, many diplomats agreed, they would almost certainly demand 1) the establishment of a strong, centralized German government and 2) the end of the separate West German state now being created, or at least its stringent subordination to a central German regime. Furthermore they were expected to propose the withdrawal of all occupation troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Positions for Paris | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...West's policy in the face of these gambits was slowly crystallizing. The West would never agree to an effective Russian veto in Germany. The U.S. and Britain would not object to a unified Germany with a central government; but they would insist that the West German constitution be used as the framework for this future German regime. The U.S. would almost certainly refuse to withdraw its occupation troops; the U.S. token force in Germany gives Western Europeans an indispensable sense of security from Russian attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Positions for Paris | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...metropolis itself girded for siege. Along Nanking Road, through Shanghai's heart, khaki-clad troops put up wires for military phones. At the Central Police Station black-clad police cracked down on Red underground agents and others charged with troublemaking. Gaping crowds gathered to watch Shanghai's tumbrils rumble past. On a typical day, in the yellow brick courtyard of the police station, swift sentence of death by shooting was meted out to three prisoners for plotting to overthrow the government. One was Wu Shih-wen, 36, from far-off Manchuria. According to custom, Wu knelt to write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Will They Hurt Us? | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

King George County's high school for white children had a gymnasium, central heating, showers, a good cafeteria and a fair-sized library. King George's Training School for Negroes got its heat out of old oil drums converted into makeshift stoves. It had rickety outside privies and so little classroom equipment that not even the most elementary science courses could be given. When the N.A.A.C.P. found that conditions in Gloucester followed much the same pattern, it decided to go to court. Result: last summer, a federal judge in Richmond ordered the Gloucester and King George school boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Non-Performance | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...report included a plea for an additional $5,000,000 endowment to meet annual deficits and to finance a new class-room building, and a new student building to provide central dining...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: David Report Asks for Less Commercialism in Business | 5/10/1949 | See Source »

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