Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...desperately cramped state, West Germany has been further burdened by a staggering influx of 9,000,000 refugees from the East-members of German minorities expelled from Eastern European countries, fugitives from the Red regime in East Germany. Daily, a thousand more straggle across the border into the Western zones. Some of the refugees have done well in the West; most live in misery. Many are agricultural laborers from the East's rich farmlands, who cannot find work in the Western industrial economy. West Germans bitterly resent the refugees, accuse them of taking away their jobs and living space...
...middle stage between the short-range and long-range objectives would be regional groupings, like the proposed monetary and customs union among Benelux, France, Italy and, eventually, Western Germany...
...Nazi gas chambers at Oswiecim; four years since the battered Third Reich had surrendered to the overwhelming might of the U.S. and its Allies. A new regime, already endowed with many of the powers of a respected, sovereign nation, was rising from Germany's ruins. The Western world, led by the U.S., was about to slip the shackles off defeated Germany; it would try to guide the country which had been both monster and genius, insane destroyer and industrious creator, to a place among the free nations...
...Lost the War? Last week, Chancellor Adenauer formally committed his country to the new Western policy of making something good of the Germans. In a quiet, unceremonious business session atop the Petersberg, overlooking the new German capital at Bonn (pop. 110,000), Adenauer and the Western Allied High Commissioners initialed the "protocol of agreements" which put into force the decisions of the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference (TIME, Nov. 28). Next day, Adenauer submitted the protocol to the Bundestag (Lower House). The new German Parliament forthwith proved one thing: it was no rubberstamp Reichstag...
...Western powers allow Germany an industrial output keyed to an annual steel production of 11.1 million tons; actually, West Germany's mills produce only 9 million. The country has 1,300,000 unemployed. Industry's gravest trouble: a severe shortage of credit to finance reconstruction. Both Germans and Americans have been loth to invest in German industry. Said one wise U.S. economist: "The critical question is still one of confidence...