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Though the Borough of The Bronx already boasted the Yankee Stadium and the world's biggest zoo, New Yorkers toiled like stage hands to fix it up with a world capital as well. The finished product was flossier, in a restrained, global way, than either El Morocco or Club "21," and could be reached by both the I.R.T. and Independent subways. But any resemblance to Versailles, The Hague or Geneva was purely coincidental...
...conquered capital was divided like a pie into four slices (see map). The Americans occupied about a quarter, mostly residential. The British held another quarter, partly residential, partly industrial. The French occupied only one borough, a thin wedge between the British and Russians. The Red Army slice was biggest-almost half the city, including its business heart. As far as the Elbe River, the Russians controlled all outlying regions through which the Allied supply routes...
...almost immediately a hitch developed. Four days later the U.S. military governor, Colonel Frank Howley, admitted to correspondents: "The Russians are running all of Berlin." Marshal Zhukov's Red Army officers continued to issue orders to all of Berlin's 20 borough heads, paid no attention to British and U.S. "authority...
Killed in Action. Captain George C. Grey, 26, Liberal, youngest member of Parliament. Elected to the House of Commons at 23 for Berwick-on-Tweed, he followed the footsteps of his late relative, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who represented the same borough at the same...
Queen Elizabeth, visiting a U.S. Army hospital in England, stopped at the bedside of Lieut. John P. Maher and asked: "Where are you from?" Said Maher: "The Bronx." The Queen said she knew The Bronx was a borough of New York City, then asked how it got its name. When Maher could not answer, Lieut. General John C. H. Lee, the Queen's escort, offered $20 to anyone who could. An onlooker, Captain Bill Tourney, a 31-year-old Bronxite, spoke up: "It is named for a German or Dutch farmer . . . who settled there...