Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HICOG (High Commission for Germany), McCloy has had to build a new staff from the ground up. The only two Clay men are Major General George P. Hays, deputy military governor, who will stay on as McCloy's deputy, and Major General James P. Hodges. Among the new members of McCloy's "cabinet" are the State Department's old Germany hand, James Riddleberger, who will be in charge of political affairs; Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, formerly of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York, who is assistant high commissioner; and Labor Director Harvey W. Brown, former A.F.L. official...
...held by Russia, the Oder-Neisse boundary deal which ceded a large part of Eastern Germany to Poland, the dismantling of German plants. He also touched on the sore spot of denazification. "The truly guilty," he said, "must be severely punished, but beyond that we can no longer have two classes of people in Germany-the politically reliable and the politically unreliable...
...head of the opposition, gaunt Socialist Kurt Schumacher replied. The abolition of the "two classes of Germans" was not enough; why, he asked insinuatingly, had not Adenauer mentioned the victims of Naziism, including Germany's surviving 30,000 Jews...
Communist Max Reimann, leader of a bloc of only 15 votes in the Bundestag's 402, joined in the melee. When he described the Oder-Neisse line as the "boundary of peace," all parliamentary decorum disappeared. As the delegates raged against Reimann, two men in dirty, torn, Wehrmacht greatcoats, P.W.s just released by Russia, shoved their way into the chamber and yelled: "No home, nothing to eat, and then we have to listen to this Red gaff!" Communists charged a "provocation." Said one Christian Democrat delegate gloomily: "It's a good thing we still have an Occupation Statute...
...customs garrison replied in kind, and for two months the fusillade continued back & forth across the frontier. Then the Yemeni built a small fort to improve their position. After a fruitless exchange of diplomatic protests, Aden's British government dropped a few smoke-bombs near the fort. The Yemeni sat tight. A fortnight later the British dropped real bombs, and Yemen's new fort was flattened. But no one was hurt, because the British had considerately informed the Yemeni of their plans well ahead of time and the fort's garrison of 20-odd stalwarts had prudently...