Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said a joint announcement by the three Western powers: "Additional food during the winter months will help to sustain the population in their clearly expressed intention not to submit to the harsh consequences of the blockade . . . The Soviet occupation power has vainly attempted to gain political advantages in the city by inhumane and illegal means...
...West last week took another important step toward the rebuilding of Western Germany, on which depends the rebuilding of all Western Europe. The military governors of the U.S., British and French occupation zones announced that all of the import & export trade of those areas would henceforth be regulated by one centralized agency. That regulation meant the almost complete economic merger of U.S.-British Bizonia with the hitherto separate French zone. It was a firm answer to Russia, who, by putting on the screws in Berlin, is trying to make the West abandon Western German recovery...
...they asked both Russia and the West to "explain circumstantially" why the blockade had been imposed to begin with, and why the talks between the four military governors last summer had broken down. That had been already amply explained in the U.S. White Paper (TIME, Oct. 4). But the Western powers, who wanted to avoid any suspicion of railroading the small nations, politely agreed to answer...
Last week fast-moving ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman made a fast trip to Europe to try to stop the dismantlement and removal-for reparations-of industrial plants in Western Germany. Eastbound, he rode on the presidential plane with Secretary of State Marshall. ("It was," said Hoffman, "the highest-level hitchhike in history.") Next day he conferred with sprightly Foreign Minister Schuman in Paris; the next, with tired, grumpy Foreign Minister Bevin in London; and a day and a half later, he was back in Washington, holding a press conference. He was natty in a dark blue suit but he needed...
...year ago the U.S., Britain and France agreed that Western German industry should be restored to about the 1936 level. Under this plan 682 plant units from the Anglo-American zones and 233 from the French zone were earmarked for dismantling. Meanwhile, in the U.S. Congress a feeling began to grow that plant removal was a wasteful business, that it might hinder the Marshall Plan and add to the U.S. taxpayer's burden. Hoffman wants to be able to tell Congress next year that waste has been minimized...