Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian zone, "recruitment" sounded like the draft. In Leipzig, Saxony and the Berlin area several hundred men got a note from the Soviet military administration "At 0800 hours, June 15, you will report at with two blankets, underwear and two days' food. Your relatives can reach you through Field Post...
Many of the draftees will do ordinary construction work in the Soviet zone. Most will probably be offered special treatment if they volunteer for service with the Russian Navy, recently expanded by the addition of many former Axis vessels...
Less than a year ago the only unions in the Zone worth mentioning were the A.F.L. affiliates, to which most of the 5,000 U.S.-born workers belonged. Then' the U.P.W.A. saw its chance, and sent organizers among the Canal Zone's 25,000 Panamanian and West Indian employees, most of whom lived in crowded slums across the fence in Panama. They found a Communist's dream. Ready for their exploiting was one of the worst examples of racial discrimination extant anywhere, and it was sanctioned by the U.S. Government...
Quite obviously, this strengthened U.P.W.A. in the Canal Zone. It also raised the question of the influence that U.P.W.A.'s President Abram Flaxer and other Communist-wired leaders exert in the Zone. Not all Local 713's members would fall for it. The Local's secretary-treasurer, Edward Gasking, a Negro schoolteacher, said that if the union's U.S. leaders urged action hostile to Canal Zone interests, "we'd throw them bodily...
...Michael's House, once the villa of a Hamburg patrician, is a school where German youths in the British zone may take a ten-day "quickie" course in the principles of Christianity. The only such school in Germany, it was set up by the Rev. Neil Nye, an R.A.F. warden, to supplement the secular re-education of young Germans who have known no god but Hitler. The school's stated aim: to fill "the need for a definite and satisfying faith on which to rebuild the life of Europe." No Church of England outpost, St. Michael...