Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of other U.S. zone cities and towns last week, the 33,000 citizens of Schwäbisch-Gmünd were electing a Bürgermeister. Up for re-election was Franz Czisch, a 40-year-old grocer and Christian Democrat whom the Nazis had once expelled from law school as a "half-Jew." Opposing him, on a no-party ticket, was Franz Konrad, Bürgermeister under Hitler, twice denazified by his neighbors...
...East. Red countermeasures had already begun. The day before Robertson spoke, the Russian-controlled Berlin radio announced, not unexpectedly, a plebiscite for the Soviet zone next month on the question of "unity." The foregone conclusion: most would vote "Ja." Then the Russians could set up their capital in Berlin (in their own sector), or possibly in Leipzig...
...editor and publisher of Berlin's Tagesspiegel (Mirror of the Day), biggest paper in the U.S. zone, 54-year-old Reger is a key man in the Allied effort to reestablish a free German press. In the summer of 1945, when "good" Germans were hard to find, American officers summoned him from his village of Mahlow. They knew his record: he was a onetime (1920-27) publicist for the Krupp works at Essen, later an anti-Nazi novelist and broadcaster. During the war he had escaped the Gestapo's notice by dropping his pen name of Reger...
...Tagesspiegel is not Berlin's biggest daily (the Russian-licensed Tägliche Rundschau sells 800,000 copies, the British-licensed Telegraf 600,000), but it is the best-balanced. It is not pre-censored, follows no party line. Thus, it has readers in all zones. Written in prosy, pedantic German, it runs unemotional editorials that occasionally criticize vacillating U.S. policy. Reger's own articles, like himself, are stolid, learned and long-winded. His chief troubles are those of all the German press: newsprint shortage (most of it comes from the Russian zone), and newsmen who are untainted...
Editor Reger feels fairly hopeful about the future. "In the American zone," said he, "we have a good start. We have made fair use of the freedoms that have been granted. In the press the feeling for democracy is much stronger than it is in the political parties...