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Also featured in the Progressive is a statement by Professor Santillana of M.I.T., endorsed by Harvard's Salvemini and La Piana, revealing for the first time "reliably reported" Allied-Italian armistice terms. According to the article, Italy will cede the entire eastern shore of the Adriatic to Yugoslavia, certain territories to France, and Pantelleria and other islands to Britain. The article places emphasis on the reported economic terms...
...Russians want a strong and friendly Poland; according to Polish sources, the British have unofficially urged the Polish Government in Exile to cede the Pripet Marshes to Russia, keep the important city of Lwów, and presumably compensate themselves in East Prussia and German Silesia. In the Balkans, Russia will want a strong voice in Yugoslavia, Rumania and Bulgaria, where Soviet influence is strong...
...Rumanians' bitterness at these losses was heightened by the fact that Bulgaria, one of the two nations to which Rumania was forced by the Axis to cede territory, was not fighting Russia at all, and that the other, Hungary, has sent fewer than 150,000 troops to fight Russia...
...probably be based on a mutual agreement of the need for both industrial and craft unions. Now that Murray has proven himself to be no stooge for Green's personal enemy, Lewis, the old man of the A.F. of L. may sacrifice himself on the altar of unity and cede the leadership of the new American Council of Labor to the younger C.I.O. leader. As a compromise the job might even go to Alexander Whitney of the railroad brotherhoods, which may be drawn into the proposed alliance. The gain in strength which will accompany the cessation of jurisdictional arguments, factional...
...British nowhere put up real resistance. They claimed they evacuated Bengasi without losing a man. The British communiqué stated that British advance forces had withdrawn "to choose our own battleground." The British were evidently perfectly willing to cede territory, since in desert warfare, as in sea warfare, the destruction of enemy fighting units is the only thing that counts...