Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal state of war which still exists between the Western nations and Germany would be softened by juggling some technicalities, but not altogether suspended (the U.S. wants to retain a legal basis for keeping a U.S. force in Western Germany...
...exchange for these concessions the Germans would have to promise to: 1) take their assigned seats on the Ruhr Authority set up by the Western powers last April, and thereby formally accept international control of the Ruhr's industrial output; 2) make some public statement indicating acceptance of continuing military security inspection by the Western powers; 3) cooperate in reforming the hidebound German civil service and decartelizing German industry...
When Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announced the gist of the agreement to the Bundestag at Bonn, the news was greeted by cries of "Bravo!" and "Sehr gut!" The Western powers had actually conceded more than Adenauer and his government had expected to get. Last week the Chancellor and the Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week...
...speed up Germany's recovery, the Western powers in 1947 raised the permitted level of steel production in West Germany to 10.7 million tons, and several hundred surplus plants were dropped from the category set aside for dismantling. The most recent working list covered 796 plants and parts of plants. Of these, 179 were in the U.S. zone, 125 in the French zone, 492 in the British zone. By last month the U.S. had dismantled all but two of the listed plants in its territory, and shipped most of them to Germany's former enemies. The French...
...Western Reserve...