Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British were in a mood to make a deal, and their phrase for it was "buffer state." Their hope was that the Chinese Reds could be persuaded to withdraw peacefully to the Manchurian border, provided that a large adjoining strip of North Korea was made into a neutral zone, administered, presumably, by the United Nations...
...Sapper John Bennett (TIME, Nov. 27), unless the British surrendered Russian Lieut. Alexandre Bystrov. Without explanation, Driver and Bennett, who had accidentally fallen into Russian hands, were released at Autobahn checkpoints. Driver headed back to Britain; Bennett rejoined his unit. Bystrov, a political refugee, stayed, safe in the British zone...
Berlin's RIAS (Radio in American Sector) last week released a letter by a Soviet sector listener describing an "entertainment" for parents by East Zone schoolchildren...
...front room of a sprawling, neo-Tudor house in the English village of Burgess Hill one night last week, a husky young man & woman from the Soviet zone of Germany, a coffee-skinned youth from India, a trim girl from Finland and a swarthy boy from France were hard at work studying the Bible. In the chapel at the rear of the house, a music class was in progress; a Berliner was at the piano, an English girl played the viola; a boy from Silesia whittled away at the violin. In a small side room a pink-cheeked Yugoslav...
What is Wrong. Principal Squire is making a special effort to get students from behind the Iron Curtain and train them to take the Gospel back to Communist areas. Three Soviet-zone Germans are currently enrolled. Said one of them last week: "You can still go to church under the Communist regime, but it's not the same . . . Many of us have begun to realize under Communism what is wrong with the church. It is this: the church retains its trappings of old, but it has lost much of what goes on beneath them . . . In these circumstances, Communism finds...