Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter of fact, I think that with the world going at the rate it is today, TIME makes more exciting reading than a detective story or a western...
...strikers offered to man certain switch-boxes from the Western zones into Berlin's Western sectors, while still blocking Soviet trains bound for the Russian sector. The Russians indignantly refused. Their German stooges said they were ready to pay 60% of the workers' wages in West marks. The strikers said no. They demanded all their pay in West marks-the demand which had precipitated, the strike. When Russian violence failed, it looked as if the strike might go on for a while. U.S. and British planes stepped up their airlift loads to 8,000 tons a day. Berliners...
...Maximum. The different planes from which West and East looked down on Germany became more evident as the week wore on. The courtesy wilted steadily. By Thursday night the talks had reached the level of restrained acerbity. The three Western powers were asking Russia to quit stalling and tell precisely what it wanted out of the conference that it had requested as a condition for lifting the Berlin blockade. Vishinsky was snapping back that no one could "impose" on him any topics of discussion...
...Western delegates believed that Russia was pursuing the tactic of a maximum, impossible demand at the outset. Vishinsky wanted: 1) re-establishment of a four-power Control Council to exercise "supreme power" in Germany; 2) re-establishment of the Inter-Allied Kommandatura in Berlin; 3) creation of an "All-German State Council"; and 4) reestablishment of the All-Berlin Magistrat...
...Minimum. The Western delegates had no intention of losing what had been gained in Germany. German unity, they insisted, must come within the democratic framework of the Bonn constitution (see FOREIGN NEWS...