Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, an airlift was organized to fly supplies from the capital to the disaster zone. A Shell Oil Co. plane crashed near Ambato killing 34 rescuers. From the Canal Zone, U.S. C-47s flew in medical supplies and a Red Cross team. "We have not lost our courage," said Galo Plaza. "Neither Ambato nor Ecuador shall cry any more, but begin to work." Ambato, he said, would be rebuilt as a modern, quakeproof city...
...Germany's Soviet-occupied zone, one morning last week, a Dr. Becker settled himself at his big desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...
Gestapo. Many Germans, he realized even then, shared passively in Nazi guilt by shutting their eyes to evil or by keeping silent about it. After the war, as he heard of the new wave of totalitarian terror sweeping the Soviet zone, he decided that "silence is suicide." For months he begged refugees from Soviet-zone concentration camps to stand up and tell their story. Last winter he found one man and one woman who were willing to take the risk. With them, he staged a deeply impressive public meeting. Out of it emerged his organization, the Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (Fighters...
...Communist inhumanity. The Kampfgruppe released to the press detailed accounts of life and suffering in Communist concentration camps. The catalogue of horrors soon served another purpose. From inmates who were released or had escaped, Hildebrandt obtained names of people who had died or were still held in Soviet-zone prisons, tried to inform their relatives...
Thomas Mann, grey eminence of expatriate belles lettres, set an old pot aboil-ing again when he returned to his native Germany. After receiving the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize, he planned to go to Weimar, in the Russian zone, to accept a similar honor. "We who fought Naziism on German soil for twelve years," huffed the Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, "think that those who invited Thomas Mann to a public festival in Frankfurt were badly advised...