American pressure forced the British to block German socialization in their own zone.

Evidence

Under pressure from the USA, the British Labour government, which had nationalized its own coal and steel industry, banned the parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from carrying out socialization measures demanded not only by the SPD and KPD but also by the workers’ wing of the CDU. Wherever the works council laws passed by individual states gave works councils a say in business matters, the military governments suspended either the laws as a whole or the relevant sections of them. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 506

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt School chapter’s account of the Institute courting business patronage in the Adenauer era, and to the broader Allied-occupation material on denazification. — connects to: British wartime pressure forced Wingate to reverse his anti-Mahdist policy — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1018
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: British wartime pressure forced Wingate to reverse his anti-Mahdist policy — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 1018