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"BIG FOUR" DINNER PLATE

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:120.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 350.00 USD
 BIG FOUR  DINNER PLATE
"BIG FOUR" DINNER PLATE
Fine china dinner plate, 9 1/2" in diameter, decorated around the rim with the flags of Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union. The base is marked with the number "38". Fine.This plate was used at meetings of the Allied Control Council, which was established one month after the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945, to issue directives, laws, and proclamations to the zones occupied by each nation. The council met in the American sector of Berlin, with representatives Dwight D. Eisenhower (U.S.), Bernard Montgomery (Britain), Jean Lattre de Tassigny (France), and Georgi Zhukov (USSR). The Council was dissolved on March 20, 1948 when the Soviet delegation walked out in protest of the western powers' desire to implement the Marshall Plan in Eastern European countries controlled by the USSR.