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...Berlin Bureau, summed up one result of 13 months of occupation: "In spite of the well-planned, well-executed maneuvers of Germany's powerful Communist Party, in spite of the vacillations and muddiness of Anglo-American policy, the people of Germany and Central Europe are looking westward, not eastward, for their future...
Questions echoed in the streets-echoed those Germans who argue for ties with the west, echoed the eastward-looking propaganda of the new Fusion Party, echoed the late Dr. Goebbels on the inevitable clash between the east and the west from which Germany might again rise...
...main mass of the population . . . did not give opposition," their "autonomous" republics were expunged by Moscow. Charged with treason, sabotage and collaboration, an estimated 400,000 men, women & children were driven from the land on which their ancestors had lived for untold generations, and ordered to trek eastward. Where? Nobody knew-probably to the vast Kazak steppes beyond the Caspian...
...farmhouses from the Pennine Hills to the seven streams that flow eastward to the Humber, the herders celebrated the end of a ten-day nightmare. But at Leyburn Police Headquarters none liked to look too closely at the body of the huge, tawny Alsatian sheepdog that had wrought the havoc; for in that section of Yorkshire sheep are a livelihood, and no Dalesman cares to admit that his dog has gotten the taste for sheep's blood...
Temporarily, at least, the military meridian which U.S. strategists had sought to push eastward across the Atlantic was rectified in midocean. But far to the south, it bent eastward: the little ash-heap of Ascension, whose importance was not realized until midway in the war, was under British sovereignty, and the British would be reasonable. Nearer home, the chain of Western Hemisphere bases from Newfoundland to British Guiana, obtained in the destroyer deal of 1940, was secure for 93 more years...