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28. The attempt by Sweden to organize a neutral bloc outside the pact collapsed when Secretary Acheson:
1. Declared that all nations must be "either our Allies or our enemies."
2. Publicly denounced Sweden as a "saboteur of peace."
3. Said neutrals' requests for U.S. military supplies would be subordinated to those of pact members.
4. Persuaded Sweden to sign the treaty.
5. Persuaded Finland to stay out of such a bloc.
Communist Strategy
29. Reacting to this show of strength, the Communist parties in one country-after another:
1 . Urged that the pact be opened to Russian-dominated countries.
2. Ordered general strikes for April.
3. Issued propaganda directives calling for a general peace conference in 1949.
4. Were deceptively quiet, and prepared to go underground.
5. Announced that they would side with Russia against their own countries in case of war.
30. A shakeup in the Moscow high command replaced Foreign Minister Molotov with Andrei Vishinsky, and to the important post of First Deputy Foreign Minister went the man who had cast 25 vetoes at the U.N. Security Council:
1. M. A. Menshikov.
2. Andrei Gromyko.
3. A. I. Mikoyan.
4. Maxim Litvinoff.
5. Nikolai Voznesensky.
German Problem
31 . The U.S., Britain and France met and agreed on a blueprint for Western Germany which included all but one of these provisions:
1. Most of the dismantling of German industrial plants will stop.
2. Germany will be admitted as a full-fledged partner in the Marshall Plan organization.
3. Military government will end.
4. Germany may rearm.
5. The Allies will retain certain key powers of control vested in three civilian high commissioners.
32. A shift in policy came when the Union offered to end the Berlin if the Western Powers would their counter-blockade and:
1 . Agree to convene the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers.
2. Accept Soviet Zone currency in all Berlin.
3. Agree to restore the Weimar Constitution to Germany.
4. Guarantee Russia's reparations claims against Germany.
5. Legalize the Communist party in the Western Zones.
33. Four years after the Third Reich's to the Allies, German delegates at Bonn:
1. Celebrated the defeat as a German victory.
2. Asked the U.S. for more aid.
3. Asked the Western Powers to drive Russia out of Germany.
4. Adopted a democratic constitution for Western Germany.
5. Formed a neo-Nazi group.
34. On the eve of the Foreign Ministers conference the Russians staged an election for a People's Congress in the Soviet Zone, the results of which:
1. Showed the usual 90% majority for the Reds.
2. Were suppressed.
3. Even by the Reds' say-so, showed about a third of the people in opposition.
4. Showed 75% of the people opposing the Reds.
5. Were declared invalid by the four-power Kommandatura.
35 . Meanwhile, the blockade had barely been lifted in Berlin when the life of the city was violently disrupted again by a prolonged strike among:
1 . Railway workers.
2. Street cleaners.
3.