Word: zonal
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...recent meetings of the Control Council, zonal government showed at its worst. Marshal Georgi Zhukov calmly declared that while he really trusted the British, he could not understand the presence in the British zone of entire German Wehrmacht units under German officers. Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery retorted testily that Zhukov's facts were inaccurate. The question was shelved, leaving a bad taste all around...
...Berlin-bound freight train puffed out of Frankfurt, loaded with meats and grains. The story of what happened to it is the story of zonal government in Germany...
...Zonal lines tripped Germany's life at every point. Occupiers and occupied were disgusted. Only the French insisted that zonal administration should not be modified until they had an answer on their proposal to internationalize the Ruhr; used their veto power in the Allied Control Council in Berlin to make their obstructionism stick...
...Three were fed up with the divergences and difficulties of zonal government. But plans for greater centralization were blocked by the French, who still cherished a hope that Germany would be permanently partitioned into several nations. Last week the Russians agreed with the French that the Ruhr area should be split off from Germany and made a separate state, but in principle the Big Three were still united against partition of the rest of the country...
...occupation of Germany was entering a new phase. By partitioning eastern Germany, the Allies had destroyed the old Reich. By quartering what was left into occupation zones, the Allies had quadrupled their problems and troubles. Last week the victors reached across their respective zonal boundaries, began an effort to treat the new Germany as a unit...