Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 of scientific research . . . reparations . . . the Ruhr . . . decartelization . . . displaced persons and refugees . . . protection, prestige and security of the occupying forces...
...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...
...End of a Dream. Britain had a surplus of ?350 million to show for 1948, but Cripps explained that he could not actually spend this money. It had all been used up, mostly to wipe out some of the huge national debts. The biggest items in the budget were expenditures for defense and cradle-to-the-grave social security. Cripps smashed the rosy Socialist dream that the "welfare state" could be paid for entirely by soaking the rich. The rich were now all but soaked, and it was Britain's plain people who would have to pay for their...
Writing on the Wall. Labor M.P.s, thinking of the 1950 general elections, groaned or sat stunned. One Laborite mourned: "It's the end of the revolution." A sarcastic Tory dubbed Cripps "The Iron Chancellor...
...evening, however, the streak came to an end. In a debate with Amherst College in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room, the Crimson debaters lost the decision. Godfrey G. Howard '50 and George I. Mulhern '51 supported the affirmative argument on the topic: "Resolved. That Membership in the Communist party be declared Illegal...