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Europe's governments had repealed anti-Jewish legislation. Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania had been forced to it by armistice terms. Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl sweepingly promised Jews full civil rights. But all over Europe, Jews who returned to their old homes were received as unwelcome strangers. The Nazi-seized property they claimed had frequently been taken over by other war victims. There was no shelter, no clothing, no food, and little sympathy to spare...
Married. Commander George Howard Earle, 55, former New Dealing Governor of Pennsylvania, later disputatious Minister to Bulgaria (in 1941 a Nazi in Sofia complained that Earle conked him with a champagne bottle), wartime naval attaché in Turkey; and Jacqueline Marthe Jermine Sacre, 23, Paris-born daughter of a Belgian railroad executive in Turkey; he for the second time (four sons by a previous marriage), she for the first; in Istanbul. Said he: "I came back because I adore Jacqueline." Said she: "I love George. I knew he would come back...
...recognize Tito's Yugoslav Republic, though pointing to "its failure to implement the guarantee of personal freedom" laid down at Yalta. Bevin followed suit. At London, Byrnes had tried to ease the tension by recognizing Hungary. Washington thought he might now do the same with Rumania and Bulgaria, though their one-front regimes were as repressive as ever...
...cession of this territory would greatly improve Russia's strategic position by making the Black Sea even more of a Soviet lake. Of its 2,000-odd miles of coast line, the U.S.S.R. now has about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...extremes still dominated Europe's geographical edges. Franco in Spain and Salazar in Portugal were the precarious remnants of the Right. Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania, all in the Russian sphere, had held elections on the one-slate Moscow model, and produced the expected results. But in most of the rest of Europe the Communists, aware that their day had not come, played a cagey game...