Word: functional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the signing, the four-power Allied Control Council was in formal existence, and its over-all plan for the control of Germany was released to the world. But not much had happened: the Council did not even begin to function, and some sections of the plan, written when the occupation was more of a prospect than a fact, already seemed out-of-date...
...length in any American paper (and I'm sure I never will); nor have I seen general or detailed analyses of any kind of Soviet techniques of free suffrage, the make up of the Presidium, or of the manner in which executive branches of the Soviet state actually function...
...Commission's function was to coordinate individual policies of the occupying powers in these and other matters. But, practical-minded as the Commission members might be, it would be difficult to coordinate the policies until they had been mutually disclosed...
...coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl von Moltke made the study of past wars a prime function of the Corps...
...control to Allied control. It is not only that the battle line has been advanced from the backyard of Honolulu to the frontyard of Tokyo. Even familiar places and bases have changed to an extent that leaves the returning correspondent openmouthed with unbelief. Not only have they grown; their function has changed...