Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME implies that "Jew" is equivalent to Irish or German, which would imply the unsupportable theory of a worldwide "Jewish" nationality. The American Council for Judaism denies such a concept and repudiates any programs that derive from...
...organization and the economic incentive to go to work for Europe's benefit, the Western powers had to see what they could do by themselves. This week, the conference announced agreement on "recommendations" to its governments. The gist: convoke a constituent assembly to set up a democratic Western German government. If the Russians want to bring their zone in, fine-otherwise nichevo...
...thing, they were afraid of a too powerful Germany. The U.S. and Britain had made concessions: 1) the Ruhr was to be administered by an international board which would see that France and the rest of Europe would get a fair share of Ruhr products; 2) the new Western German government would not be centralized but loosely federalized to prevent it from becoming too strong; 3) military occupation would not end "until the peace in Europe is secured...
...Germany itself last week the Communists, too, knew that the chips were down. They had launched a full-blast propaganda campaign against the plan for Western Germany, crying "Einheit" (unity), a slogan that had long made deep and stirring music to German ears. In the Russian zone they had launched a drive for twelve million German signatures on a petition for an "all-German unity" government. A huge sign in Berlin set forth the Communist case (see cut). It read: "Attention! You are now entering the American sector. American democracy rules there. They want to forbid the will...
...Schuman could see an even blacker cloud on the immediate horizon. The six-power London agreement to set up a provisional Western German government would soon have to be laid before the Assembly for ratification. The Communists, of course, were against it. Maurice Thorez had already called it "a national disaster." And General Charles de Gaulle promised a public statement on the subject before the debate began. That De Gaulle would be critical, there was no doubt. If he were violently critical, Radical and rightist deputies would not vote the ratification...