Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crossed the Oder to a camp for deportees near Neuruppin in the Russian zone. Since he was an experienced farmer he received a small allotment out of a big estate broken up in the new land reform. Karl Schwarzenberg has a chance of making a new life-as a peasant. He even has a chance of finding his lost child...
...opposed splitting Germany into bits & pieces (he advocated "slight dismemberment" into a North and a South German State, and an international Ruhr zone...
...Sudeten, those Germans who remained wore identifying armbands. In Berlin, Jews were entitled to extra rations. In the British zone, on behalf of Jews, the British commandeered clothes from Germans. Thanks to presidential demand, the first of many Jews in the American zone were removed from behind barbed wire and were installed in houses requisitioned from Germans. Into Germany, fleeing a new paroxysm of pogroms in New Poland, wandered still more Jews...
...Hanoi, noting that the French Tricolor was missing from the decorations, General Marcel Alessandri huffily refused to attend the Japanese surrender to Chinese General Lu Han. And at week's end a protest went from Paris to Chungking: Chinese troops had "advanced" into Laos in the French zone...
Last week the Russians went at it differently. Marshal Georgi Zhukov summarily ordered the Germans themselves to open all schools (except universities) in the Soviet zone by October 1. German officials were "warned" to prepare buildings and books in time. All private schools were told to become public ones. The German zone administrator was given two days to submit a list of courses and books for Soviet approval. German school directors were told to go out and find non-Nazi teachers. Teaching, said Marshal Zhukov, must "reveal the reactionary character of Naziism, fascist race instructions, and the military character...