Word: westernisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...question of a free v. a controlled economy was not the only issue between the two parties. The Christian Democrats, headed by foxy, polished, 73-year-old Konrad Adenauer, were backed by the Roman Catholic Church. Western Germany's bishops last month published a pastoral letter urging the faithful to vote for "Christian" candidates. To the bishops' letter, gaunt Socialist Leader Kurt Schumacher, violent champion of separation between church and state, made bitter reply. His party, he cried, had consistently fought all dictatorships, "whether marked by a swastika, a hammer and sickle, or deep black robes...
...armed, one-legged Schumacher had to be helped up onto the rostrum (see cut), but his rhetoric was as vigorous as ever. Cried he last week: "The Allies have no right to condemn the entire German people because of Naziism. All European nations were for a time Nazi followers. Western EuroDe continued to conclude treaties with Hitler at a period when hundreds of thousands of German anti-Nazis were already in concentration camps...
...Britain last week began to close out the Berlin airlift. But Mayor Ernst Reuter had urgently warned the Western commandants that the battle for the city, won by perseverance during the bleak winter, might be lost by neglect in the pleasant summer. Berlin faced a serious economic crisis...
...streets of Berlin, hope grew thinner, as did the long-familiar, reassuring roar of the airlift planes. The three Western commandants asked their Military Governments to make Berlin a long-term loan of $136 million. Before flying to Washington last week, where he is seeking new recruits for the fast-dwindling U.S. occupation staff, High Commissioner John McCloy promised Mayor Reuter that he would try to get direct Marshall Aid for Berlin. The U.S. expected the city's defense to continue costing money...
...several occasions our men . . . had to confront the enemy face to face. Blood has already been shed . . . Rumors are still being heard. At first these rumors were spread by Western persons . . . But we knew that the Red army cannot attack a Socialist country because that would mean the end of Socialism in the world . . . But today those in the East are also trying to intimidate us, disseminating rumors ... of this many and that many Soviet divisions in one place or another . . . We are afraid only of elemental upheavals, droughts and hail . . . [We are] prepared to defend our country against...