Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's decision to devalue the pound came so fast that Western Europe's statesmen are still muttering angrily about not having been consulted. Last week London's respected Daily Telegraph told a detailed story of how the decision was reached...
...mountain hotel atop Petersberg near Bonn, not far from the cave where Siegfried bathed in dragon's blood, the proconsuls of the three Western powers met to turn a historic leaf: they ended West Germany's military government. Henceforth, the land which Allied armies conquered would be under civilian rule...
...Wonderful Team." From 11:17 that sunny morning, the supreme law in Western Germany became the Occupation Statute, a sort of interim peace treaty drafted by the Allies last spring (TIME, April 18). It gives the Germans wide scope for self-government, although the high commissioners still keep important powers over foreign affairs, demilitarization, decartelization and D.P.s...
Thousands of Eastern Germans coming by feet, car and bicycle streamed across the border today to sample the economic plenty of the Western Zones...
...Russians relaxed their border controls at a number of crossing points to encourage Western Germans to participate in gigantic "World Peace Day" demonstrations throughout the Eastern Zone, but only about 500 Germans were reported to have taken advantage of the holes in the Iron Curtain to go East...