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Specifically, Russia wanted sole trusteeship over Tripolitania, while the U.S. wanted four-power trusteeship. Russia wanted Trieste for Tito's Yugoslavia, while the U.S. and Britain wanted to leave it to Italy (with the port itself under international control). Russia wanted recognition of Bulgaria's regime, which the U.S. and Britain found unrepresentative...
...Ministers would be meeting in Paris in a conference proposed by Byrnes, to thrash out the issues which the Paris Peace Conference will have to consider and which the Ministers' deputies in London have been unable to settle in twelve weeks of discussion. Italian reparations, Trieste, the Dodecanese, Bulgaria, Tripolitania, the Ruhr were all issues on which no agreement had been reached. And the Peace Conference was still scheduled to open...
...Ridiculous Position." The dictator of the world's largest one-party state said that Churchill had assumed a "ridiculous position" by decrying the lack of "true democracy" in eastern Europe. According to Stalin, such nations as Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Poland were far more democratic than Britain, because each of them was ruled by a bloc of several parties, while the British Government was run by one party, with the opposition-including Churchill-barred from membership...
...Showdown? Moscow newspapers called Churchill's speech "aggressive." And Moscow rapped Byrnes's finger when the Secretary tried to point out to Bulgaria how it could make its government more democratic. Bulgaria, Moscow made plain, is Russia's sphere...
Armies, navies and air forces maneuvered from Dairen to Labrador; Russia countered a U.S. charge of undue meddling in Manchuria with a charge that the U.S. had done the same in Bulgaria. Moscow again claimed that Russian forces had stayed in Manchuria at Chinese request, and alleged that "fascist" armies were being maintained in the U.S. and British zones of Germany. The Greek elections wavered toward postponement because of a leftist boycott; chancelleries puzzled what to do next with Rightist Dictators Franco and Perón. The Danes politely asked Russia to loosen her grip on Bornholm island; the Iranians...