Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the turmoil was Law 75, promulgated in Frankfurt last fortnight by the Anglo-U.S. military commanders in Bizonia, Generals Sir Brian Robertson and Lucius D. Clay. Law 75 transfers ownership of the Ruhr coal, iron and steel industries to temporary German trustees, and provides that when a freely elected democratic German government is able to do so, it shall decide the question of private or public ownership. The reason given for Law 75 was that the promise of eventual German ownership would raise morale among German workers and managers, and therefore raise production...