Word: controllers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civilian Control. The simple, 700-word occupation statute should have given the Germans a number of things to be grateful for. Along with the statute, the Western allies confirmed a previous agreement to stop most of the dismantling of German industrial plants, and to admit the West German state as a full-fledged partner in the Marshall Plan organization. Once the state comes into being, Military Government will end. Some occupation forces, however, will remain. The allies will retain certain key powers of control, to be vested in three civilian high commissioners. They will completely control "disarmament. . . demilitarization . . . related fields...
Defensive Russians. Waiting for U.N. action were these major issues: the proposed admission to U.N. of Israel; the question of diplomatic relations with Franco Spain*; the Dutch-Indonesian dispute; and the disposition of the former Italian colonies. In the Political Committee, the Russians promptly made a grab for partial control of the Italian colonies. The U.S. (backed by Britain) wanted to give part of Eritrea to Ethiopia, proposed giving Britain U.N. trusteeship over Cyrenaica, and Italy trusteeship over Italian Somaliland. The U.S. and Britain, rasped Russia's Andrei Gromyko, were trying to divide up the colonies "as if they...
...week's end, Labor had resorted to finagling to keep control of the city government. The city government includes, in addition to the councilors, 21 aldermen elected by the council. Under a small-type clause in the council's constitution...
...sign. To businessmen who have festooned Panama with such slogans as Royal Crown Cola's "Best by Taste-Test," strict enforcement could be a headache. But most Panamanians seemed unimpressed. Snorted a reporter for one of Panama's newspapers (over which the commission has no control): "We common people will still ask for sanwiches, not emparedados, when we go to lonch...
Chao Tse-chen is also something of a modern Christian prophet. When the Communist army entered Peiping in January and so insured its control over North China, Christians in China and throughout the world began wringing their hands. But not Dr. Chao. He wrote and circulated privately among his fellow Christians his own call to Christian battle. This week, U.S. churchmen had an opportunity to read one of these articles: Excerpts...