Word: zone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...British military missions were finally in Vienna, paving the way for joint occupation. Russian troops were "thinning out" from the British occupation zone in Austria. The U.S. Embassy in Prague opened. In Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania, Russian military authorities still made unilateral decisions, but Washington thought it saw signs that this phase, provided for in armistice terms, would end soon...
...Republican Senator Owen Brewster, speaking from hearsay after a tour of western Europe, said that Germany's professional and bourgeois crust was being liquidated in the Russian zone...
...liaison mission. That mission, he said, was carried out successfully in an atmosphere of trust and good will. And incidentally, he added that the Viennese seemed surprised but happy under Russian occupation, which so far has netted them a larger food ration than Austrians get in the American zone, and also a government chosen from their own people...
...Traffic. Before the Commission's members could proceed with the job at hand, each would have to know what was going on in the others' zones of occupation. At the administration level there had been no secrets between the Americans and British. Both were still operating under SHAEF, in which British and U.S. officers were intermixed. And SHAEF had dutifully informed Russia of its policies and practices. There the exchange of information had stopped. The Russians had drawn a cloak of secrecy around their zone in eastern Germany...
Report from the Front. In 1943, Dr. John Lucian Savage, top U.S. Bureau of Reclamation civil engineer, who had gone to Chungking at Chinese invitation to study potential hydropower sites, asked to visit the Yangtze gorge. The bleak area was a fighting zone, but the Chinese Army guaranteed Savage safe conduct. In quiet broken by occasional rifle shots from the sleeping front, Savage charted possible dam sites except those above Ichang at the mouth of the gorge, which was in Jap hands...