Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The directive, sent to McCloy by the State Department last month, did no more than to codify and sharpen U.S. policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman...
¶ The U.S. High Commissioner was instructed to make sparing use of his veto powers over German legislation, to intervene as little as possible in German internal affairs.
¶ The people of Red-encircled West Berlin should be helped out of their present economic plight, brought into the closest possible relations with West Germany. ¶The West Germans must not be allowed to wiggle out of Allied security safeguards, e.g., they will not be allowed to have even...
"We must discuss the abominable injustice that has been meted out to the Jewish people. We must ask . . . are we, because we lived in Germany, also guilty of this diabolic injustice? . . . The phrase 'collective guilt' is an oversimplification. It is a distortion, in fact the kind of distortion...
"But something like collective shame has grown and remained from those times. The worst thing that Hitler did to us-and he did much to us-was that he forced us into the shame of having to bear the name of German simultaneously with his henchmen. We dare not forget...