Word: zonal
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...adviser seriously questioned the desirability of decentralization and explained that this part of our policy failed largely because the bi-zonal military administration as well as German party organizations tend strongly towards the opposite. Concluding, he stated that deindustrialization was becoming "reindustrialization," but that German war potential had been reduced to zero...
...position clear: "Before the council decides on the kind of government to be set up in Germany, we must agree on the common principles in Germany necessary to enable a government to function effectively. In my opinion, these include: the basic freedom for the individual; the abolition of zonal boundaries, except as delineation of occupation areas, with no hindrance to the free flow of persons, ideas and goods throughout the whole of Germany; and a clear determination of the economic burdens the German people are to bear. Any German government called upon to administer a Germany divided...
...vintners of the Palatinate sought (as they do every year) a name to distinguish the 1947 vintage. What to call this year of hunger, hate, uncertainty, and growing fear? The vintners discarded Kalorienspritzer (calory splasher) and Zonenschleicher (zonal sneaker). They chose Knochenrappler, which means "rattler of bones." The children of Germany knew well what the vintners meant; thousands of German kids, searching for food, rattled bones in garbage cans. If they found an egg, however stale, it was precious. And if the egg could be cooked in an old war helmet (see cut), that was a symbol of the menacing...
...military operations we pursued purely military objectives. . . . And when we overran our estimated and agreed objectives we withdrew to previously agreed zonal boundaries. These were acts, not words, based upon . . . mutual confidence and loyalty...
...Russian zonal press growled that the audience had reacted with paraphrase of Nazi slogans to a Hitlerite speech; but three days later Russia permitted its pet party, the Communist-run SED, to blurt out an announcement of a Russian new deal in the Soviet zone. Some of the promises: reduction in reparations from current production; a 200-300% increase of the zone's industrial level; abolition of the lowest ("starvation") ration card. Meanwhile, the Russians also appeared to be softening somewhat (at least on the surface) in London...