Word: zonal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubted the sincerity of Bevin's intention, but it left many questions unanswered. Who would eventually take over? Would ownership be on a Lander (state), a zonal or a national basis? What did socialization mean to hard-pressed
...faked in order to persuade Germans that SED is really not Soviet-controlled. But there could be no doubt that the Russians no longer relied on SED as an instrument of control. They were tightening their grip through other means, such as the top-secret creation of a German zonal police organization (reportedly including a new German secret police...
...would continue the party artificially as a stage decoration with weak leaders who would bow to the Russians. On the other hand, our participation may attract the rest of Germany's and the world's attention to the situation in the Russian zone. Germans voting in the zonal elections actually won't be electing councilmen as much as they will be registering their decision on overall Weltanschauung. . . . If they vote SED, they approve the Soviet system; if they vote CDU or LDP, they endorse Western democracy...
...countered that Germany would have to know the kind of peace she would be up against before she could develop such a government. He suggested, in effect, that the economic reconstruction and the centralized government called for in Molotov's plan be started immediately by 1) lifting of zonal boundaries, 2) establishment of a central administration to which even the French had now agreed. But Molotov, despite his grand promises, refused. His stand forced Byrnes and Bevin to announce that the U.S. and British zones would merge. This should complete Germany's long-emerging division into an Eastern...
Some Germans wondered why Molotov would not let them have an advance on the wonderful future he had promised. Said one Berlin office worker: "If Molotov is really interested in Germany, I don't understand his refusal to drop zonal frontiers." But most of the press on the right (German) bank of the Rhine completely ignored this purposeful Molotov paradox and played up Russia as Germany's best friend. Typical sample: the Liberal Democratic Party's Der Morgen headlined: "What Molotov demands for Germany" as contrasted with what the Western powers "demand from Germany." Said a German...