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...deep in the engine rooms and even in the ancient, rotting lifeboats high in the davits, 3,854 refugees, 591 of them children, struggled for life. In a small armada of launches, caïques, fishing smacks and rowing boats, they had left tiny coves in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, to be picked up by the ship...
...like the old saying, "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost," and so on up to the loss of a kingdom. But it worked in reverse, like this: the Big Four's Foreign Ministers in Manhattan could write all five peace treaties (Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Finland) if they could write the Italian treaty; they could write the Italian treaty if they could agree on Trieste; they could agree on Trieste if they could fix the U.N.-appointed governor's powers; they could fix the governor's powers if they could decide who would boss...
Clearing the Air. At Paris, Russia and the West had struggled over seemingly picayune points of the treaties with Italy, Finland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria. Yet all the issues had a bearing on the fate of all Europe, set the framework for the critical struggle over the German treaty. The Big Four at the Waldorf were likely to reach the German treaty in an atmosphere greatly clarified since six months...
...news surprised nobody. The results of Communist-dominated Bulgaria's first general elections since she became a republic were easily predictable. A month ago U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes had protested that the three-power Yalta agreement on free elections was being violated. Sample: when the opposition parties were finally permitted to hold a rally in a Sofia square, an inexplicable power failure (the Government controls all utilities) had left the square in darkness, the loudspeakers hushed. Meanwhile, at another rally of the free electorate (complete with loudspeakers) Georgi Dimitroff, onetime chief of the Comintern and head of Bulgaria...
...consolidate the work of this conference, however different our views." The commissions made some headway on boundaries and reparations. On the thorny subject of reparations they agreed: from Italy, $325 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ethiopia; from Hungary and Rumania each, $300 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia; from Bulgaria, $125 million to Greece and Yugoslavia; from Finland, $300 million to Russia. The principle of freedom of the Danube was voted, 8-to-5, but Russia & friends (who control most of the river) voted no. And the working sessions failed entirely to produce a statute for the contemplated Free Territory...