Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From General Lucius D. Clay, American occupation zone commander, came the mild reprimand: "It is bad citizenship to encourage people to disobey the law of the land." Niemöller's directive seemed to be having little practical effect. Germans were still testifying against Germans. The remaining denazification trials were expected to end next June. But many Germans were delighted with Pastor Niemöller's words, and in the arena of world opinion they still carried, for some listeners, immense authority. Was this authority justified...
...himself. Young Sean, whose early life had been spent in the outlawed Irish Republican Army and whose father had been executed by the British, disavowed any trace of anti-Britishism, but he was vaguely against Dev's policy of keeping Eire in the British pound sterling zone...
Soviet officers were showing U.S. correspondents through Germany's Russian zone. Proudly they pointed out the war-battered Zwinger in Dresden. Plans were well under way, they boasted, for restoring the museum. But where were all the paintings listed in the catalogue...
...turned out, was scandalized at the very idea. Renault had better luck near Bergerac, in the Dordogne, where his host was a small, salty squire, the father of eight, with a fine disdain for the conquerors. When, he asked, would Renault like to slip across into the German zone? After Renault replied "tomorrow," he realized that he was scared stiff of the Gestapo...
Contraband. In Hof, Germany, a Russian-zone housewife was arrested trying to sneak into the U.S. zone with two smoked cats and a smoked...