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...Control Council at the top has four members, the military representatives of the four powers. Each has his own political adviser, his own executive agent on the coordinating committee which will implement council decisions, his own counterpart on the revolving authority which will govern greater Berlin as a four-power city. On a lower level are twelve administrative divisions, roughly corresponding to the ministries of the Third Reich. Each division has four bosses-U.S., Russian, British, French...
Yenan's stiffening attitude toward Chungking had its counterpart in Moscow. Where two years ago there was relative aloofness between Russia and Chungking, there is now undisguised hostility. Moscow's War and the Working Class has tossed epithets like "Mihailovich" and "Quisling" at Kuomintang leaders. Izvestia has belittled T. V. Soong's administrative reforms. Bolshevik has praised Yenan's army and called Chiang's troops "passive spectators at best" in the fight against Japan. A Russian bestseller, Alexander Stepanov's novel Port Arthur, claimed Manchuria's key port as "Russian soil...
...chief of the American section (with Field Marshal Harold R. L. G. Alexander as his probable opposite number for Britain) ; Major General Lucius Clay as his deputy and administrative chief of staff; the State Department's Robert Murphy as political adviser (with sharp-eyed Ivone Kirkpatrick his counterpart for Britain, and purge-trial prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky for the Russians); and Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow as commander of the U.S. Fifteenth (occupation) Army. While these top four will probably stay in Berlin, American administrative headquarters will be located within the U.S. zone, probably at Frankfurt...
Customary Cockroaches. Dobie, who once described himself as "so damned old-fashioned I don't like to change," finds an ineradicable nobility in the British counterpart of his feelings, the omnipresent conservatism that extends from "the Old Squire sentiment for old names, old fields, old ways" to the obstinacy of coal miners who labor in wretched forms of physical drudgery, yet "are more averse to new machinery than the mine owners are. . . . When the love for an old hall by a college pf dons dooms charwomen to carry coal scuttles up and slop jars down three flights of stairs...
...staff, is to be headed by a Secretary-General with the right to "bring to the attention of the Security Council any matters which in his opinion may threaten international peace and security." This provision would give the organization's executive an importance far beyond that of his counterpart in the League...