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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Minneapolis last week, Tom Dewey scrapped the farm speech he had gone there to make - scrapped it in order to tear apart Franklin Roosevelt's picture of the terrible foreign policy that the U.S. could expect if the Republicans won the election. What kind of peace, Dewey demanded, could the U.S. look forward to if the man in the White House was one who continually quarreled with Congress? Said Dewey...
...Yugoslavia. "We are in fact acting jointly-Russia and Britain -in our relations with both the Royal Yugoslav Government, headed by Dr. Subasich, and with Marshal Tito, and we have invited them by joint message to ... a conference between them both at Napies." This statement could not be considered apart from the joint Churchill-Stalin statement issued from Moscow: "The right of the Yugoslav people to settle their future constitution for themselves after the war is, of course, recognized as inalienable." In this inalienable right Marshal Tito would certainly take a decisive hand, and Tito is more responsive to Moscow...
Russia has always subscribed to the U.S. and British rule that the Italians could communicate with other countries only through the Allied Control Commission. But the Russians, sensing the Italians' deep resentment, simply let it be known that they had business with Italy apart from military matters, that Russian representatives would discuss such business directly with the Italians...
Italy's empire seemed about to fall apart. Marshal Josip Broz Tito was doggedly pushing Yugoslavia's claim to Trieste, Fiume, Istria. (In the U.S. last week appeared Yugoslavia and Italy, a pamphlet quoting Marshal Tito, his Foreign Commissioner Dr. Josip Smodlaka and others, urging the Yugoslav claims.) In Athens, the Greeks demanded, and with British help would likely get, the Dodecanese Islands...
...this discovery at Manhattan's unique Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.* There she found an organization with many disabled people on its staff, using many kinds of special training methods. For example, there are replicas of bus steps, curbs placed just the width of a city street apart, with lights timed like traffic lights. Hardest trick for Betsey Barton was getting into...