Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing seemed already clear at the end of Denfeld's testimony: either he or Louis Johnson would have to step aside; after Denfeld's testimony they could no longer work together. Said one high-ranking general: "Personal relationships have gone to hell. I don't see how they can ever be repaired within the Joint Chiefs of Staff." Whatever else was decided, changes would have to be made in the U.S. defense command...
...Communist-run German Socialist Unity Party, "Father Unity" (as his comrades called him) was formally inaugurated as president of the new Red puppet republic in Germany's Russian zone. Pieck, a worker's son, watched a torchlight parade of 300,000 Berliners (complete with fireworks, goose step and Prussian military marches), inspected the Communist-trained "people's police." Berliners compared the show to the one the Nazis staged when Hitler seized power in 1933. Two days after the fireworks came the greatest honor of all: a personal letter from Joseph Stalin...
...Time for Comedy. But the tight fix of Rank, who turns out 50% of all British films, is no joke to Britons. In the last twelve months, he has fired nearly 1,800 production workers (about 35% of his staff) and kept step with other British moviemakers by cutting the pay of most of those left by 10 to 20%. The drop in movie production was so sharp that Labor
...pictures shown in British theaters must be British made). He was also hit when Hollywood retaliated by refusing to show U.S. pictures on the same bill with British films. Since Rank owns 60% of Britain's theaters, he was under heavy government pressure to step up his picture-making activities...
...told it will show anti-Russian (nationalist) groups in other Iron Curtain countries that the U. S. is willing to be friends, to play the kindly uncle to Stalin's stern father. This may or may not help these countries cast off Russian control, but it is a step in the right direction-we may hope for eventual Russian departure from the area...