Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What happened in Italy in the days just ahead would answer one vital question: Can Communists capture a nation where there is neither Red army nor Red police? The result would decide whether Italy would take her place with Western Europe (and Western Union) or with the satellite East. And that decision, in turn, would affect the worldwide question of war & peace. For it was a simple fact that Italy formed a precarious bulge in the West's defenses: if this battle of the bulge were lost, Communism would stand at the Alps and reach deep into the Mediterranean...
...shape of Western Germany, observers thought, would be determined when the U.S., Great Britain and France resumed their talks on "Trizonia" next week in London. There would be sufficient reassurances for France, whose fears of a centralized Germany had made her reluctant to see the zones merged. By fall, some believed, a state would exist, with Frankfurt as its capital...
...week long in Berlin the desultory brabbling between the Western Powers and the Russians flared, faded, flared again. The light generated there illuminated little save irreconcilable differences. But 350 miles to the west, in the heart of the industrial Ruhr, the flickerings revealed how much closer was a Western German state...
...Make Up Your Minds." The best that Western Germans could make of their two-thirds of the nation was considerable. There would be the prospect of quickening economic recovery through the European Recovery Program. Western Germany, now a three-headed monstrosity of Allied administration, would be brought back "into the family of those nations whose economy is so closely related by nature" to its own. And there would be achieved the unity of "an independent, freely elected representative government...
Although neither alternative is wholly satisfactory in view of the growing strength of the new Fascists, there is no overestimating the cost to the West of a Communist sweep at the polls. There could be no excuses for the defeat of Western Democracy by Communism in a free election after a campaign, supported by unlimited funds with extravagant promises of colonies, seaports, recovery, liberty, and order. If the West loses because it has permitted itself to be backed into a corner by failing to support a party which offers land reform, the effect will be disastrous to the position...