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...Russian zone, political reorganization was speeded up. To German provincial administrations chosen a fortnight ago (TIME, July 16), Marshal Georgi Zhukov last week added carefully picked county administrations (Landratsdmter). The reason given for the Russian haste was the harvest. A winter of famine faced the Germans. Crop forecasts were 45% below normal, and even that figure might be cut by a shortage of harvest hands, sickles, binding wire. All political organizations, said the Berlin press, were helping to draft thousands of Berliners for the farms of Brandenburg...
...seventh day, the deadlock over administrative procedure was broken. To a conference hurried Russia's Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the U.S.'s Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay and Britain's Lieut. General Sir Ronald M. Weeks. An official statement said "useful decisions [were] reached in an atmosphere of complete and mutual understanding." Correspondents passed the word along that Marshal Zhukov, hitherto inhibited by the presence of the Kremlin's strong-arm troubleshooter, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs Andrei Vishinsky, had received more discretionary authority and was using it to speed up cooperation. Soon it was announced that...
...almost immediately a hitch developed. Four days later the U.S. military governor, Colonel Frank Howley, admitted to correspondents: "The Russians are running all of Berlin." Marshal Zhukov's Red Army officers continued to issue orders to all of Berlin's 20 borough heads, paid no attention to British and U.S. "authority...
...Marshal Georgi Zhukov, boss of Russian-occupied Germany, the Communist, Social Democratic and Christian Democratic parties offered candidates for the posts of president and vice presidents of the administrations of Saxony, Mecklenburg and Brandenburg in the Russian zone. In no case did the Communists, experts in back-seat political driving, propose one of themselves for president. They modestly preferred the vice-presidency. Promptly Marshal Zhukov accepted the candidates, who took office at once...
Popular Front. The manifesto, which promptly received the blessing of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, administrator of the Russian occupation zone, was signed by Wilhelm Pieck, head of Moscow's former Free Germany Committee (TIME, Oct. 30) and a number of other German Communists who have returned from Russia or from concentration camps to take key jobs in the new German administration...