Word: soviet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State George Marshall had returned from Moscow reciting the story of the Soviet effort to seize the economy of Central Europe, of the Soviet Union's negation of every U.S. effort to make that economy selfsupporting. His references to Stalin's bland remarks about reaching ultimate agreements (TIME, May 5) were deadpan; Marshall himself reflected little optimism...
Under a Rock. With the air of a man peering underneath a lifted rock, he told what he had discovered at Moscow. He recalled how, at Potsdam, Britain and the U.S. had allowed the Soviet Union's claim to millions of dollars' worth of German factories-on the contention that this was the way to keep the peace...
...Moscow Conference Soviet policy had switched. Now the U.S.S.R. said she would take her reparations in German goods, which meant lifting the ceiling on German productive capacity. She would, in fact, let Germany turn out ten to twelve million tons of steel a year. Dulles recalled: "A little over a year ago, Marshal Sokolovsky said, 'To leave Germany an annual capacity of nine million tons of steel will mean war within a few years...
...changed its mind? The reason seemed to be that the Russians, after feverishly dismantling the German factories and starting to carry them off, had not been able to put them together again. "Many parts of German factories," said Dulles, "are rusting on the railroad sidings between Berlin and Moscow." Soviet economic needs were so great that they were willing to take risks. Furthermore, with Communism now strong in most of Europe, the Kremlin has little fear of a regenerated Germany...
Said Dulles: "In the Soviet zone of Germany, the dominant political party and the labor unions are already subject to Soviet will, though they may not know it themselves. It is much the same in the French zone of Germany. In the British and U.S. zone, Soviet influence in the political parties and labor unions is growing rapidly...