Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint occupation during its first six months, cheerily added the tactless and probably inaccurate boast that the U.S. now was the most influential power in Berlin. Hard on Howley's heels, General Joseph T. McNarney, commander of U.S. forces in Europe, reported that food stocks in the U.S. zone were surprisingly ample...
Just as General McNarney left for a vacation in Switzerland, news came from the British zone which froze all the optimism. "With great regret" and as a result of "unforeseen developments," the British slashed their zone's rations by about...
...eared copy of the one-page North Korea Communist mouthpiece Chawng Lo (Right Way) turned up in the U.S. zone last week. From it, South Koreans, eager for news of their northern countrymen, learned of a two-day meeting in P'yongyang to plan a provisional government for the Soviet-occupied area. The self-government murmurs had strong overtones of the Internationale...
...zone skeptics called the provisional regime a "Soviet puppet," charged that Kim II Sung was an impostor trading on the name of a legendary Korean resistance leader...
...functional friendliness was not the Russians' only weapon. They also put on direct pressure for a merger of the Socialist and Communist parties. Last week, Communist Chairman Wilhelm Pieck set the date: "before May." Fusion would virtually assure a leftwing election victory, solidify Communist control of the Soviet zone...