Word: lander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...last week, cuts Allied interference in German affairs to a minimum. Except in emergencies, the commission will act only through the federal German government and the eleven Länder (state) governments. Occupation troops remain in their present zones, but henceforth may deal with the Germans only through a Lander Commissioner (appointed by the high commissioner of his zone). The new government will join the OEEC and sign an ERP agreement with the U.S. Instead of the past separate patterns in each zone, occupation policy will become uniform throughout Western Germany...
Died. Cecil Howard Lander, 68, British engineer who helped develop jet propulsion and Fido (Fog Investigation Dispersal Operation), a device used in World War II to clear fogbound airports; of a heart attack, in Shrivenham, England...
...Munich, the Lander Presidents from all zones of Germany met to discuss economic problems, showed themselves as little united as their conquerors. Scarcely twelve hours after their arrival, the delegates from the Russian zone rose, stomped out of the blustery night session in the best Gromyko tradition. Cracked slick, scrappy Rudolph Paul, Russian-appointed President of Thuringia, as he climbed into his shiny Maybach for the trip home, "This is a fine democracy you have here when a man can't even make a speech. It's enough to make you sick...
...doubted the sincerity of Bevin's intention, but it left many questions unanswered. Who would eventually take over? Would ownership be on a Lander (state), a zonal or a national basis? What did socialization mean to hard-pressed