Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atop Petersberg near Bonn, not far from the cave where Siegfried bathed in dragon's blood, the proconsuls of the three Western powers met to turn a historic leaf: they ended West Germany's military government. Henceforth, the land which Allied armies conquered would be under civilian rule...
...switchover from military to civilian rule was a hectic experience for the people on occupation duty. U.S. occupation headquarters, which had moved from Berlin to Frankfurt in August, was in turmoil. One by one, General Lucius Clay's top men had resigned; personnel had been slashed from 2,300 to 1,400. New men were coming in. In Berlin, 200 families of U.S. officials were waiting anxiously for houses in or near overcrowded Frankfurt. The old headquarters of OMGUS (Office of Military Government for Germany, U.S.), where Clay had sat out the blockade, was deserted...
Under the new rule there will also be fewer "off-limits," signs which in the past had served chiefly to steer G.I.s to the more interesting hot spots. Said one G.I.: "If it weren't for the off-limits signs, we couldn't have found half the good geisha houses...
China's new people's republic would be strictly Soviet style. According to the principle of "democratic centralism," party rule would be exerted downward through a tightly knit administration. The "people's" conference was not elected by anyone, but appointed by the Communist bosses. Neither Mao Tse-tung nor any of his comrades had a "mandate" from the people. Mao described the new regime as a "people's democratic dictatorship...
...less a tradition is Winchester's almost complete rule by the boys themselves; the head of the school government, always one of the "scholars," has five or six assistants in each of the ten dormitories. Under this system, which was started by the boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire...