Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just before I was going to Paris to work on the treaties [for the German puppet enemy states]," he recalled, "Mrs. Byrnes insisted that I have a checkup-so I went to the Naval Hospital and they took a cardiogram of me. I'd not been sick in 40 years, but they scared the life out of me. They said the 'V which should have been horizontal was inverted," and told Byrnes he would have to slow up. "The next day," said Byrnes, "I sent in my resignation to become effective when I finished the Paris treaties...
...Veldt. Three years ago a message came to Scott in Johannesburg from black friends on the veldt: in South West Africa, a former German colony mandated by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa, the white men were plotting to defraud the black men of their heritage. It was the "sacred trust" of a mandatory power to prepare native peoples for self-government. Instead, the Union of South Africa was preparing to annex South West Africa and force its black men (300,000 v. 30,000 whites) into a degrading system of racial discrimination (TIME...
...purpose of dismantling was twofold: 1) to compensate, in some measure, the conquerors and victims of Nazi Germany; 2) to keep future German industrial production "down to a "safe" level. In 1946, with France invited into the quadripartite administration of Germany, the Big Four agreed on a maximum level for Germany's industry keyed to an annual steel production of 5.8 million tons. About 400 war plants were to be dismantled (in a few cases, destroyed) as a matter of military security; about 1,500 other plants not directly engaged in war production, called "surplus," were earmarked for possible...
...became clear that Moscow would block unification, the West stopped further capital shipments to Russia (she did receive some equipment, including a Daimler-Benz aircraft factory and part of the great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making Germany anything but "safe...
...House of Commons last week, Winston Churchill pointed out that some sort of logical case could be made for keeping the Germans on their knees and for continuing to tear down their factories; a very good case could be made for encouraging German freedom and recovery. But, said Churchill, to combine both policies, as the West had tried, was "grotesque...