Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Russian engineers hastily but with loving care dismantled a power plant in Bavaria, in the U.S. zone, which had been earmarked for Russia before reparations were suspended. Said the wrinkle-browed, grim-faced Soviet colonel who supervised the work: "You [Americans] don't understand what reparations mean. . . . To us it is an absolutely vital part of our national economy-something we must have if the Soviet people are going to get a standard of living anywhere near what they had in the middle thirties, which, God knows, was low enough. . . . Politically it makes our row harder...
...Four's decision to internationalize Trieste and give Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia was a far greater blow to the Italians in Italy than to the Italians in Trieste. Where people can see Tito troops by going a couple of miles to the boundary between Zone A (Anglo-American control) and Zone B (Yugoslav control), patriotism is tempered by practical considerations. Most of the 270,000 Italians in Trieste, after expressing their dislike of Slavs and Communists...
...greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...
...side of the line, Tito has done plenty of provoking. If the peace conference confirms the Big Four decision, about 350,000 Italians will be included in Yugoslavia. The future for these non-Communist Italians has already been shown in Zone B. While the charge of "Fascist" made against wealthier Italians is true in many cases, it is also used indiscriminately against non-Fascists...
Frantic Fractions. It is impossible for correspondents to get permission to move freely in Zone B. But I managed to get a pass to drive from Trieste to Pola, which a small British detachment occupies. The Yugoslavs have marked off one highway as a supply route for the British. Allied vehicles are not allowed to stop at any point, and are fired on if they leave the road...