Word: stated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperately cramped state, West Germany has been further burdened by a staggering influx of 9,000,000 refugees from the East-members of German minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the Western zones. Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space...
...find room for its ministries in schools, storehouses, private homes; the sleepy town, with its heavy Victorian houses and yellow streetcars, seems withdrawn and dreamy, as if it had decided to live in retreat from the harsh realities outside. But Communist propaganda, radiating from the Reds' Eastern puppet state, reminds Bonn of reality...
...many political-action groups which have sprung up all over West Germany, and the high turnout (nearly 80% of the eligible voters) at last summer's elections, indicate that at least some Germans have begun to see that the government is their concern. When Secretary of State Dean Acheson recently visited Germany, the people showed a genuine, spontaneous warmth toward America's representative which surprised and gratified Acheron and his advisers. But the mass of Germans remain doubtful and suspicious; a relapse in West Germany's economic health, or even its failure to improve, may incite bitter...
Adenauer rejects Kurt Schumacher's talk of a welfare state and a controlled economy as remedies for Germany's economic ills. He believes that, under "free incentives, and with some foreign investment, German industriousness can produce enough to give all Germans work and a decent standard of life...
...Christian Democrats' official program contains some welfare state features; Adenauer himself has often said that capitalism must assume "social responsibility." Actually t his party's attitude toward labor is still undefined. Many of West Germany's industrialists, who generally support Adenauer, do not like the innovations-profit-sharing plans, management-labor councils-which the military government introduced. Sighed one union leader last week: "Capitalists in the U.S. are so much more farsighted in their labor relations than our bosses...