That Was Then

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"No ketchup, no ketchup," the hirsute bluejacket searching agitatedly amoung the 
cruets and salvers, "seems to be no . . . what th' fuck kind of place is this, 
Rog," yelling down slantwise across seven enemy faces,"hey buddin you find any 
ketchup down there?"

Ketchup's a code word, okay---GR. P729

That Was Then: Allen W. Dulles on the Occupation of Germany
Allen W. Dulles
>From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2003

. . . .The present political set-up in Germany is based on the agreements 
reached at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam. Tehran was made when Churchill felt 
somewhat shaky. The arrangement did not include the French zone, which was added 
later. But regardless of its genesis, by and large the scheme is almost entirely 
unworkable. We have chopped up Baden, Württemburg, and Hesse into artificial 
zones. In the case of Saxony, the Russian zone cuts off the American and British 
zones from their counterparts there. It is difficult to see how the Allies could 
have done otherwise inasmuch as the Russians would not consent to British 
and American domination of Germany and the Americans and 
British likewise refused to consider letting Russia get an advantage. Even so, 
very little progress is being made toward the centralization of the various 
services. To complicate matters, the French have been saying that they could not 
set up an administration in the zone assigned to them until they knew what disp
osition was going to be made of the Rhine and the Ruhr. . . .

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