Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party has many members in the industrial Ruhr area, where there is a more liberal attitude, it must maintain its strength in conservative Bavaria. This agricultural state has no need or wish for possible government interference in its economy and has threatened to withdraw from any strong state that may be established. In Bavaria the Christian Democrats are joined in a weak coalition with far-right Christian Socialists; any concession at Bonn by the C.D.'s would destroy the uneasy union, and lose for them this second most populous of the eleven West German States...
...financial powers in the constitution be left largely in the hands of the separate states. This was a big pat on the back for the Christian Democrats and their conservative backers. Although the Social Democrats still refused to make any compromise with their opponents or with the Allies, they may back down. They know there will probably be no more concessions from the united allies, or from the Christian Democrats who are now certain of Allied support...
Such propaganda, plus the Allied check on nationalist hopes at Bonn, may persuade enough delegates not to give in, but to keep on trying to get exactly what they want so there will be no constitution at all. Even if the Allies give in to the Social Democrats the action would antagonize the Christian Democrats and result only in another deadlock. If the Bonn council does fail it will be a major defeat for the Western powers who have committed themselves to a German State, and the Germans and Russians know it--perhaps too well...
Members of the undergraduate Social Relations Society, fearing that their already crowded department may be flooded by "gut-seeking" freshmen, have prepared a letter to prospective concentrators warning them that Social Relations is no easy major...
There are areas of political and economic operation where public opinion may not hamper formal relations with Russia. But there could come a point where national psychology would be the determining factor between war and peace. Continuation of the present style of reporting can boost our national attitude way off balance at the end of a springboard. It's a high board, and below...