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From many sources came reports of Italy in upheaval. Bern and Stockholm told of peace riots in Bologna, Milan and Rome, of clashes between Italians and German soldiery. The Fascist Blackshirt militia, posted on the northern frontier, it was said, had been replaced by Badoglio's police; bad blood brewed between the factions; Italy might yet be plunged into civil...
...BERN--Italian occupation forces in France have refused to hand over American and British men in their territory for deportation to Germany and have held back at the muzzles of machine guns Vichy police who tried to seize them, Swiss dispatches said today...
Last week the Chicago Daily News's Bern correspondent reported that Mihailovich had resigned from his post (War Minister) in the Yugoslav Government. In denying this story, the Government in Exile confirmed a hitherto unofficial report that negotiations to end Yugoslavia's tragic schism were under way. Said the official statement: "The tendency at present is toward greater understanding." Mihailovich has been in contact with some of the minor Partisan groups. But the main Partisan force, headed by ex-Lawyer Ivan Ribar (TIME, Feb. 8), was still aloof, and the chances of real unity were therefore small...
Jane Avril was the last surviving member of the most celebrated cancan team-of Montmartre's Moulin Rouge. She was also the favorite model of Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. From Bern came word last fortnight that Jane Avril had died in Paris...
Died. Jay Pierrepont Moffat, 46, U.S. Minister to Canada; of an embolism; in Ottawa. One of the ablest of the career diplomats, he had been with the State Department 25 years, served in various capacities at The Hague, Warsaw, Tokyo, Constantinople, Brussels, Bern, Geneva, Sydney and Washington. He was chief of the Division of European Affairs from 1937 to 1940, when he replaced James H. R. Cromwell in Ottawa. He was a descendant of first Chief Justice John Jay, married the elder daughter of ex-Ambassador to Tokyo Joseph C. Grew...