Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron curtain across Europe parted a little last week. Escorted by Russian officers, seven U.S. newspapermen, among them TIME Correspondent Jack Fleischer, toured rich, lightly war-damaged Thuringia, southwest of Berlin, in the Russian zone. When they returned to Berlin, Fleischer reported this conviction-that the goal of Russian occupation policies is a socialized Germany...
...supplies in the food stores, bacons, sausages, cheese, eggs, homemade preserves in the farmers' larders, and plenty of warm, good clothing on German backs, including frequent fur coats. The Russian zone is far ahead of other zones as a going concern. This is the reason: the Russians know just what they want in Germany. The Western Allies continue to be vague and confused...
Foot in mouth. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein last week chose this defense for a necessary reduction of German food rations in the British zone to a near-starvation 1,000 calories a day: "Germans gave the inmates of Beisen only 800 calories." Short, spare Montgomery added: "Big, overgrown Germans have got to tighten their belts...
First to reply to a petition organized by Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, for removal of bans on correspondence between Americans and Germans in the American occupation zone, Sol Bloom, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Wednesday that he hoped for "a satisfactory solution" to the problem...
Despite McNarney's optimistic estimate, the U.S. could hardly help without cutting its own 1,550 calories. The French zone was at the bottom of its flour bin. The Russians pointedly hinted that everything was all right in their zone; actually, they might soon be facing serious shortage themselves. The food crisis spurred hopes of a zoneless four-power administration of Germany...