Word: ruhr
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statute for an International Ruhr Authority (TIME, Jan. 10), although it allayed French fears, had not brought peace to the humming Ruhr. Britain, France and the U.S. were still bickering over how many plants should be dismantled; plans for a three-zone merger (that is, for a merger of the French zone with Anglo-U.S. Bizonia) were stalled; and the Ruhr Germans themselves were making trouble. Some of the troublemakers were Communists, but some were non-Communists who considered themselves patriots...
Early this month, 5,000 Reds had jammed Düsseldorf's Rheinhalle for an anniversary rally. Reimann, an able rab-blerouser, harangued them for 2½ hours. He denounced the Ruhr statute as a means to "dismember the heart of Germany and make dollar slaves of German workers." He shouted: "German politicians who today cooperate with the occupation forces under the Ruhr statute should not be surprised if they are considered quislings by the German nation." Then Reimann added that those who cooperate "may one day have to face reprisals...
...guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon for his daily meal of watery soup and monthly wage of 350 marks (about $30). Oskar is among the lucky. Young and strong and still unafraid, he probably will soon be flown to the West. All miners are welcome in the Ruhr...
...signatories had sat in a smoke-filled room in London's Foreign Office, hammering out the agreement clause by clause and word by word. The conference started under an ominous cloud, caused by a decision of the U.S. and British military governors in Germany that ownership of the Ruhr industries should ultimately be handed back to the Germans (TIME, Nov. 29). The decision, embodied in "Law 75," drew violent protests from the apprehensive French. (The question of ownership was not on the agenda at the London conference, and so Law 75 still stands. The French clearly reserved their right...
...face of public sympathy for the French view, the U.S. shifted its position. The French, although yielding on their first demand that the Ruhr be lopped from Germany, were pleased with last week's agreement-especially since its terms were expected to be written into a German peace treaty (whenever one becomes possible) and so will remain in force after the occupation armies withdraw...