Word: stated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other third, the Russians can constantly dangle the prize of unity before West Germany's eyes. The focus of this continuing battle for Germany's allegiance is Berlin. In the divided city's Eastern sector, the Russians have set up the capital of their puppet state; to all Germans, they proclaim Berlin once more the capital of the Reich. But the city's Western sector feels itself abandoned by the West...
...direct taxes (on property, shares), which would save Bel prosperous, free-enterprising tax $5,000,000 this year. Further reductions, hoped Liebaert, would save $30 million in 1950 and $40 million in 1951. Though Belgium has a deficit of $90 million this year, Liebaert, no advocate of the welfare state, thought he could still balance the budget, as well as drop taxes, by trimming social-security benefits, coal and railway subsidies...
Angry Panamanians denounced the police tactics. Almost nightly, cops tangled with citizens. The Panamá-América called for a general strike against the "police state." Merchants shut their shops, workers walked out on their jobs. Then the Supreme Court decided to review the constitutionality of the Chiari regime...
...general strike rolled on. Arias, declaring himself opposed to a "police state," let it be known that he had in his pocket the signed resignations of Police Chief Remón and his two principal aides. But for the moment wily Arnulfo delayed taking action. After all, unpopular as Remón had become, he still commanded 2,400 well-trained police, the only armed force in the republic; any doublecross of him would have to be expert-and permanent...
Three Presidents in a week was too much for the U.S. State Department, especially when the last to emerge was such an old Hitler-lover as Arnulfo Arias. Assistant Secretary of State Edward Miller Jr., who had called on Chanis in the Presidencia only ten days earlier, frostily announced that the U.S. had not yet recognized the new regime. Unperturbed, Arnulfo replied that recognition was "only a question of time." Even Miller had said that after a period of observation, the U.S., following recent hemispheric practice, could consult with other American republics about resuming normal relations...