Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers offered to man certain switch-boxes from the Western zones into Berlin's Western sectors, while still blocking Soviet trains bound for the Russian sector. The Russians indignantly refused. Their German stooges said they were ready to pay 60% of the workers' wages in West marks. The strikers said no. They demanded all their pay in West marks-the demand which had precipitated, the strike. When Russian violence failed, it looked as if the strike might go on for a while. U.S. and British planes stepped up their airlift loads to 8,000 tons a day. Berliners...
...West suspected that the point was economic. The Allied counter-blockade had hurt Russian-controlled East Germany and East Europe more than the Soviet blockade of Berlin had hurt the West. Therefore Moscow wanted to resume trade between Eastern and Western zones...
...said, was 96.6% of 1936-more progress than the 90% claimed for West Germany. Britain's Ernest Bevin, cigarette drooping from a corner of his mouth, thanked Vishinsky for "this tableau of Oriental prosperity," promised to bring it to the attention of the "thousands of refugees" from Soviet Germany...
Fainsod will attempt to get first-hand information on conditions inside Russia by talking to Soviet refugees and DPs who have been in the USSR recently. He will be joined next week in Frankfurt, Germany, by Paul W. Friedrich '49, who will act as a special assistant...
...questioning will not be limited to Russians, although Friedrich said last night that there will probably be few non-Russian refugees in Germany who have returned from the Soviet Union in recent months...