Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kremlin had set the propaganda theme, harshly repeated last week over Radio Moscow, in a White Paper issued last January by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Verbose, bristling, heavy-footed with dialectical cliches, this document rejected all moves toward Western union, from last year's Brussels treaty to the looming North Atlantic alliance, as inspired by "warmongers," designed to "undermine" U.N. and "isolate" the U.S.S.R.: "The ruling circles of the United States and Great Britain have adopted an openly aggressive political course the final aim of which is to establish forcibly Anglo-American domination the world over...
Security Is Indivisible. The Kremlin's White Paper on the North Atlantic pact also pointed out "contradictions and frictions," i.e., weaknesses which the faithful must tactically exploit, in the Western comity. Among them...
Some of these chinks in the Western armor were exaggerated. Others were real. The Atlantic pact was a crashing diplomatic defeat for world Communism, but of itself it would not strike at the roots of Communist power nor guarantee the anti-Communist world against attacks. Rather, the pact was a recognition of danger and a resolution to build common defenses. The very achievement of an Atlantic pact underlined the failure to build an Asiatic defense against Communism...
Ever since the Russians imposed their blockade last spring, a troublesome currency situation has existed in West Berlin. The Western Allies permitted the use of the Russians' East marks as legal tender alongside the West's own currency. In their own half of Berlin, the Russians had shown no such liberal attitude. Western currency was strictly banned. Since Berliners had more confidence in the Western than in the Eastern currency, West marks last week were worth four times as much as East marks. But people in West Berlin had to accept the East mark for wages, rent...
...these inequalities, the Western Allies announced that the East mark was no longer legal tender in West Berlin...