Word: zone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after De Gaulle spoke, the "world that tends to divide itself" quietly and symbolically cracked in two. Britain accepted the U.S. offer to combine economic administration of the U.S. and British zones of Germany, and France will likely join them soon. Russia, largely responsible for the split occupation of Germany, will probably keep her own zone isolated. Then two Germanics, two Europes, two worlds, will face each other across a widening breach...
Pauley neatly tied reparations to the issue of integrated administration of Germany. German reparations cannot be shipped to Russia, he said, "because no zone commander can go forward until he knows whether Germany is in reality to be treated as a single economic unit, as was agreed at Potsdam, or whether he must plan to run his zone as an independent economy...
...withdraw from the ex-enemy nations within 90 days after the treaties come into force. But Russia put a joker into the Hungary and Rumania treaties; it can keep "such armed forces as it may need for maintenance of lines of communication of the Red Army with the Soviet zone of occupation in Austria." (Meanwhile, the Russians refuse even to consider peace with Austria.) Although the easiest access to Austria for the U.S. and Britain is through the Adriatic, the Western powers did not reserve the right to keep "lines of communication" troops in Italy. They will supply their Austrian...
Last month, soldiers in the U.S. zone were booked for 32 assaults, five rapes, three disorderly conducts, and one housebreaking. Cracked an MP officer: "Now that we're getting quantity supplies of Coca-Cola, maybe our boys will get back to behaving." But most G.I.s in Austria already had passing marks for behavior; and many were living up to their orientation slogan, "Soldier, you are helping Austria." The first crop of Austrian babies fathered by helpful G.I.s is sizable...
Ever since 1929, the U.S. has backed a highway to the Canal Zone, has aided by small grants to Central Americans. Pearl Harbor gave the project a terrific boost.*U.S. Army engineers poured in some $40 million, accomplished little. The P.R.A., with some $23 million, did infinitely more. Central American Governments matched 50% of P.R.A. contributions where they could. Mexicans, who pay for their own roads, speeded...