Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Semantics. Seven weeks ago a delegation of 120 Russians came down from their zone north of the 38th parallel. They were led by rotund Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, who said: "The Soviet people warmly support ... a free way of life ... for the Korean people." Inside the pillared grey walls of Seoul's Duk Soo Palace, General Shtykov and four top comrades began a series of talks with five U.S. officers, led by strapping Major General Archibald V. Arnold...
...Formula for Purging. Koreans, remembering Japan's tutelage, were disappointed when the Moscow Conference decided upon another trusteeship, under the U.S. and Russia, for five years. Rightist groups in the American zone, loosely amalgamated in the Representative Democratic Council under elder statesman Syngman Rhee, protested heatedly, berated both the U.S. and Russia. But leftists, gathered under Communist domination in the Democratic People's Front, espoused trusteeship and opposed immediate independence, although Communists all over the world were yipping for the freedom of India and Indonesia...
Nevertheless, the fair was a symbol of reviving economic life in the Russian zone which had outstripped the zones held by the democratic powers...
Downward Spiral. The Potsdam agreement had provided that Germany be administered as an economic whole. But even at that time the Russians were running their zone along lines the Western powers could not accept. Rather than face up to the tough problem of coordinated administration, the U.S. and Britain half welcomed French obstructionism, which made unification impossible...
...Molotov promptly countered that before he discussed a treaty to assure Germany's disarmament he would have to know just how far Germany had been disarmed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, was more explicit. It asked whether all Nazi military units had been "really dispersed" in the British zone and said that U.S. authorities, "for some reason or other," had let the Germans keep secret war enterprises...