Word: pact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After months of negotiations, Great Britain and the U.S. this week signed the pact for joint economic administration of their zones of Germany. The British gave way on the only really difficult point, agreed to share the cost on a 50-50 basis with the wealthy...
...pact presented Russia (and France) with a choice: come into a genuine joint control of Germany, or stay out and let the British-U.S. combine run the part of Germany that counts most...
...warning to those who put their faith in "liberal" elements in Communism, Zhdanov made another statement in 1939. Two months before the Hitler-Stalin pact, Zhdanov published an article in Pravda giving it as his "personal opinion" (Red leaders usually use the protective "we") that Britain and France were not dealing honestly with the U.S.S.R. He noted contemptuously that: "My friends do not agree. They still think that when commencing the negotiations on a pact for mutual assistance with the U.S.S.R., the British and French Governments had serious intentions to create a powerful barrier against aggression in Europe...
...Price. In private conversations with the U.S.'s General Lucius D. Clay, Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky had intimated Russia's willingness to 1) treat Germany as the economic unit envisaged in one part of the inconsistent Potsdam Pact and 2) greatly increase the permitted maximum level of German industry, now keyed to a potential annual steel production of 5,800,000 tons. (Wartime peak in 1943: 21,000,000 tons; depression low in 1932: 5,500,000 tons.) For this reversal of their position (previously the Russians had stubbornly pressed for lower industrial output) and for their agreement...
...appraise his work, his staffers grabbed the first damp copies that came up from the pressroom. Page One was reassuring (it had a lovers' lane murder yarn) and inside there were headlines like JURY TOLD OF HER LIFE WITH MAN CALLED A 'BEAST,' and CHASTITY PACT BROKEN, SAYS JUDGE...