Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressmen Murphy set the week's high mark in sightseeing-he saw the Falange headquarters and General Francisco Franco. Nattily togged out in a grey nylon shirt and grey suit, Murphy arrived at the guarded gate of El Pardo in a yellow government car, and was welcomed by the Caudillo in a blue civilian suit...
...Western Germany, which bears a heavy share of Europe's hopes, skimmed through an alarming crisis last week. The high commissioners of the three occupying powers (the U.S., Britain and France) got in a row over their first important decision. They patched it up by a crude compromise which embroiled them with the new German government of Konrad Adenauer. When Adenauer stood firm, the high commissioners partly backed down, and belatedly saved the situation...
From the Petersberg, the mountain-top headquarters on the Rhine of the Allied High Commission for Germany, Konrad Adenauer and his ministers descended to their capital at Bonn. At the federal chancellery they met with the directors of the Bank Deutscher Lander, West Germany's central bank. There they agreed to cut the mark from 30? to 22 ½? to bring it into line with sterling and other devalued currencies...
Back up the mountain road to the Petersberg drove Adenauer & Co. They told the three high commissioners-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's General Sir Brian Robertson, France's Andre François-Poncet-that they were ready to make the 22½? rate public at once. But the commissioners, whose powers under the Occupation Statute give them control over foreign exchange, asked the Germans to wait...
...Straight French Face. The high commissioners disagreed. The battle between them began on the Petersberg, then shifted to the U.S. headquarters at Frankfurt. Unresolved, it was transferred by plane to Berlin, where the commissioners had a date to attend a Yehudi Menuhin concert. They had invited Lieut. General Vasily I. Chuikov, commander of the Russian zone, but Chuikov's seat was vacant...