Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September report, released last week, reflected this feeling and took a critical view of Allied cooperation. The Russians, who like Eisenhower and understand candor, became more cooperative immediately after the report was published. In a subsequent letter to President Truman, Eisenhower proposed that military occupation in the U.S. zone be replaced by civilian control as soon as possible. Truman agreed. Redeployment had so thinned the occupying force that it lacked enough experienced men for direct control of the German people. The next phase, Allied government of Germany through German officials, would be a political rather than a military operation...
Early in 1946, town and village elections would be held in the U.S. zone, and U.S. troops withdrawn to three state capitals, Stuttgart, Munich, Frankfurt am Main...
Whether the Germans were ready for self-government was doubtful. Until the Potsdam conference all political activity in the U.S. zone had been forbidden, since then it had not been encouraged. To the exclusion of politics, problems of food, fuel and shelter preoccupied the Germans. Washington decided that U.S. food would go to Germany this winter; otherwise starvation and disorder would preclude the building of a Germany run by anti-Nazi Germans...
...zone, anti-U.S. organizations began to crystallize. Most of them consisted only of a dozen or so young men who just seemed fond of playing cops & robbers. So. in their early days, did some of Adolf Hitler's brown shirts...
...troops, and killed several thousand of them before they could be extricated. Hundreds of miles farther north, many a day's march beyond the scene of Marshal Yen's trouble, in Suiyuan Province, a large force under Governor Fu Tsoyi, commanding general of the Twelfth War Zone, was in pitched battle with Communist forces drawn from Yenan and Hopeh. Government strategists were obviously surprised by the Communist strength, now think that the Communists are trying to break out of Yenan into the friendly valleys of Russian-dominated Outer Mongolia...