Word: government
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nearly 100 Civil Affairs officers, of both the Army and Navy, were graduated from Harvard University's Civil Affairs Training School in exercises held last Friday in the Faculty Room of University Hall. These officers comprise the second class of men Harvard has trained to govern occupied territories in the Far East...
Assistant Provost Marshall General H. M. Bryan USA, in his address to the officers, said that CATS were serving in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Austria, and in the Phillippines and other areas taken by American troops in the Pacific Theatre. Eventualy, he said, CATS officers would govern conquered peoples in the heart of Tokyo...
...order doesn't seem to make sense but I can see some reason for it. ... We've got to teach these Germans that we're the boss now, and if you go around fraternizing then they have influence over you and how are you going to govern them...
...Control Council at the top has four members, the military representatives of the four powers. Each has his own political adviser, his own executive agent on the coordinating committee which will implement council decisions, his own counterpart on the revolving authority which will govern greater Berlin as a four-power city. On a lower level are twelve administrative divisions, roughly corresponding to the ministries of the Third Reich. Each division has four bosses-U.S., Russian, British, French...
...Brigadier General John A. Appleton, former Pennsylvania Railroad executive, will govern transport, and Brigadier General William H. Draper, former New York investment banker, will take over the vast economic section...