Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...official in Germany was somewhat more hopeful: "Economically we have made little progress, but at least in the American zone we have created a sense of freedom in a people unaccustomed to it. There is no fear of arbitrary police action. This is not true in the Soviet zone." A British observer was sarcastic: "Germans in the American zone now understand that, by & large, their first and only duty is to cause no trouble, feed themselves without a riot, and get on with the business of living any way they can. The other term for that is, I suppose...
...economic policy on Germany, though more specific than its political policy, has suffered from a basic contradiction. In the U.S. zone, Germans have been given no real opportunity for free enterprise, which is the pride of the U.S. system. The Nazi totalitarian system of economic controls and central checkups has been retained. We are not even showing the Germans what the American-type economy is like, or removing barriers so they could learn its advantages for themselves...
...zone's central economic planning is not as well administered as the Nazis' was. OMGUS drew up a central plan for allocation, supply and production for the U.S. zone. Then it allowed so many exceptions that scores of individual, unrelated factories make products not called for in the original plan, using a lot of hard-to-get, expensive raw materials. This leaves little foreign exchange to buy the imports which the central plan called for. The central plan has now largely collapsed...
...Squash Courts." Though the U.S. and British zones have been merged since last winter, there has not been time enough to erase national idiosyncrasies. In some aspects the British zone is as British as Weston super Mare. Approaching the medieval city gate of Lübeck, one can scarcely see the gate for the sign on it: TO THE SQUASH COURTS...
...French zone is the" smallest and worst run of the four. "The French have cut more wood in two years than the Germans cut in 50," said a German forester. A businessman in Coblenz told me: "The French had a wonderful opportunity here. We had had our noses full of Hitler. They wanted the Rhineland, and we wanted something different from what we had. They could have won us. But their tactics have lost us completely...