Word: zonal
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Next: an All-Germany Government. To the Allied Control Council the Russians also informally suggested names for an all-Germany civilian administration. But U.S. and British occupation authorities were still struggling to find German industrial, business and professional leaders for zonal posts. Before Potsdam, the Americans had set up local regimes and a Bavarian provincial administration. The emphasis was on "denazification." Political parties, trade unions, and political meetings (which the Russians encouraged) were forbidden. Now that has been changed. And last week General Dwight D. Eisenhower told the press: Germans in towns and rural areas will elect local officials...
Biggest factor in this problem of Europe was the control of Germany. Emphasis on separate zonal control would mean strong Soviet influence all the way to central Germany. Such a result at the center of European gravity might tip the scale so that all Europe would gradually slide toward Russia. Men close to Truman said that he wanted a highly integrated control of Germany, either abolishing the zones altogether, or setting policy for all of them by genuine joint action. Germany's reparations, deindustrialization, and borders were essential parts of the general question of Europe's fate...
...tropical coasts planted in corn, the planting of more corn on lands not used for sugar. Border states put a stricter watch on bootlegged corn liquor trickling across to the whiskey-short U.S. Sole purchaser of corn will be the Government, which will distribute it on a zonal basis...
...intrenchments. Behind these were independent forts and strong points. From these, reserve troops, stationed far enough in the rear to be out of reach of enemy artillery, could be thrust out in any direction in counterattacks when the attacking enemy was exhausted by its advance. At this point the zonal defense system became an ideal means of launching a powerful offensive...
...hours a day. "The world's cannon and artillery cannot break through it," boasted the German high command as it was being rushed toward completion this summer. But in principle the new Siegfried Stellung is just a three-ring version of Colonel Lossberg's old zonal defense system...