Word: reich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While a blanket of early snow and the all-embracing fear of winter settled over Germany, in New York the Big Four Foreign Ministers were finally getting ready to tackle the question of peace for the drawn & quartered Reich. By last week it was probable that agreement on Germany-the cardinal issue on which the whole European peace depended-would be reached before the winter's snow melted away. Russia seemed finally ready to draw back the Iron Curtain from her occupation zone and to accept Secretary Byrnes's longstanding invitation for joint administration of Germany...
...Allied Powers this week were still trying to kill Hermann Goring. The one-time Reich Marshal's suicide had cheated the Nürnberg gallows; now fat Hermann's secret satellites were glamorizing his role of Nazi martyr by circulating a probably faked version of his dying "appeal to the German nation." The cleverly phrased document turned up everywhere - mimeographed, printed in the ancient Gothic lettering that Germans love, even as a wrapping for German meat rations. In it, Goring ostensibly invited his countrymen to sabotage the peace; justified bombings but weaseled on torture; said: "Try to forget...
Joseph Cardinal Frings (who replaced aging Michael Cardinal von Faulhaber at the Conference of German Bishops just ended at Fulda) spoke a Christian word to the victors last week. Bitterly criticizing Allied attempts to resettle 14 million Germans from Poland and Czechoslovakia within the crowded borders of the chaotic Reich, he said...
Yesterday I read an Associated Press cable: "Footsore and shabby, the once haughty Emmy Goring walked and hitchhiked to Nürnberg jail and pleaded tearfully to see the former Reich Marshal 'just once more.' She was turned down...
...central administration to which even the French had now agreed. But Molotov, despite his grand promises, refused. His stand forced Byrnes and Bevin to announce that the U.S. and British zones would merge. This should complete Germany's long-emerging division into an Eastern and a Western Reich...