Word: facing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summed up all the doubts, fears and confusions which hang like a heavy fog over Germany. The nation which produced Goethe and Goebbels, great cultural triumphs and human incinerators, has always produced eerie contrasts. Today, these contrasts seem to have taken physical shape. The face of Germany is hideously scarred-and yet, almost every where, one sees another face which is sleek and smooth...
...Other Face. Economically, West Germany has made great progress. The desperate food shortages of a year ago are gone; there is little hunger anywhere. Before the currency reform, West German production lagged at 51% of 1936; in nine months it has spurted up to 80%, surpassing the target set by ERP. Coal production is setting new postwar records...
Despite these achievements, only the most unreasoning optimist could ignore the other face of West Germany's economy. West Germany still imports more than twice as much as it exports...
...greatest danger facing Western Germany, however, is not want. It is not represented by the jarring contrast between the smooth face and the scarred. It is expressed in the fact that, politically speaking, Germany has no face at all. One may look in vain for it in any small town -a town, for example, like Remagen...
...evacuation of all occupation armies and a 50-year trade pact with Soviet Russia. No taint of Communist sympathy motivates Hausleiter & friends; they are German nationalists who believe that they can make Germany strong by making a deal with Russia. They put the smile on Max Reimann's face. They are bringing Karl Radek...