Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ralph: "I'm going to the West. . . and say, don't you want to come along, or can you still stand what's going on in the zone...
...Leave. Hermann Kastner heard from Ralph sooner than he had expected. That night Ralph, broadcasting over the U.S. radio station in Berlin, told Hermann a few of the things he had not got around to on the telephone: "What do you say to the starvation rations in the Soviet zone? How can you reconcile it with your conscience that tens of thousands of innocent people . . . are kept in prison and tortured to death . . . I suppose I could have told you all this in Dresden, but then your wife, Trude, what with her excellent connections with the Soviet authorities, would have...
...Yugoslavs, determined to keep Zone B, treated it as a Yugoslav province. A fortnight ago they staged an election for a new regional council; merger of Zone B into Yugoslavia was the real question at stake...
...oldest pawns in the cold war. The U.S. had influenced the Italian elections of 1948 by announcing that it favored return of the whole Free Territory to Italy. Yugoslavia also had claims on the Trieste area, and Yugoslav troops occupied the southern part of it, known as Zone B. When Marshal Tito left the Russian camp, the U.S. and Britain, whose forces occupy the rest of the Free Territory, had reconsidered. Anxious to keep Tito firm in his heresy, they began to urge Italy and Yugoslavia to settle the dispute...
...surprisingly, candidates nominated by Marshal Tito's People's Front in Zone B were mainly unopposed, invariably elected...