Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stamped and cried "Tito, Tito!", he mounted the platform and put on his reading glasses. Then, as virulent as ever, he shouted defiance at Joseph Stalin's Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything we can-in order to buy imported machines?" he shouted. "Of course we will...
...used to do the kolo, a Yugoslav folk dance in which the dancer first takes two steps to the left and one to the right, then two steps to the right and one to the left. Tito himself was twisting his way through a difficult kolo between Eastern and Western enemies. "Well, what now?" he concluded after two hours and twelve minutes. "Reaction in the West hates us. We are not loved in the East. Can we go on this way? Of course we can, because we must...
...Britain and France last week reached agreement on a blueprint for Western Germany. In eight days of intensive conferences in Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman accomplished more than they and their regiments of advisers had in the past eight months...
While the Western allies were still congratulating themselves on an important measure of progress toward a democratically ordered Europe, the damper came...
Civilian Control. The simple, 700-word occupation statute should have given the Germans a number of things to be grateful for. Along with the statute, the Western allies confirmed a previous agreement to stop most of the dismantling of German industrial plants, and to admit the West German state as a full-fledged partner in the Marshall Plan organization. Once the state comes into being, Military Government will end. Some occupation forces, however, will remain. The allies will retain certain key powers of control, to be vested in three civilian high commissioners. They will completely control "disarmament. . . demilitarization . . . related fields...