Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply line roughly equal to the distance between London and Berlin. It is climaxed always by inevitable concluding hours on foot. It rarely takes less than a week to get to the point of contact in China and usually takes a fortnight. For there is only one road, one zone of maneuver, and along that road all the motley personnel of this curious theater must travel...
SHAEF, the long wartime partnership of U.S. and British armed forces, was dissolving, to be replaced by the joint control plan, wherein each power would govern its own occupation zone...
Popular Front. The manifesto, which promptly received the blessing of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, administrator of the Russian occupation zone, was signed by Wilhelm Pieck, head of Moscow's former Free Germany Committee (TIME, Oct. 30) and a number of other German Communists who have returned from Russia or from concentration camps to take key jobs in the new German administration...
...Control Council is supposed to coordinate all four administrations and make this quadruped walk like a man. But, according to a previously unknown provision, the Council can do nothing unless its decision is unanimous. Lacking unanimity, the four powers may proceed independently in their individual zones. By withholding agreement, any member power could free itself to pursue its own policies & purposes in its zone...
Even Moscow's one-way announcement of its zone's boundaries, before the U.S. and Britain had divided theirs with France, actually represented an important step toward understanding (see map). The Soviet Government flew U.S. and British correspondents from Moscow to Berlin, later let Harry Hopkins inspect Berlin on his way from Moscow to London...