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Trieste was the test. Byrnes had been stubborn on one point: the city would not be handed over to Tito. But at the meetings Byrnes showed great flexibility on details ; although opposed in general to internationalized cities (too much like Danzig), he was even willing to see Trieste put under international control for five or ten years. Molotov waited quietly for word from his Vozhd (boss) in Moscow...
...prosecution: he had specifically approved the lynching of Allied flyers, and had labored long and hard to break the world's peace. Introduced as evidence: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Excerpt: " 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I asked him . . . 'what do you want? The Corridor or Danzig?' 'Not any longer,' and he fixed on me those cold Musée Grévin eyes of his. 'We want war.' " (In the dock, Ribbentrop shook his head in denial...
...Americans understand the game. The New York Times's Allison Danzig claims to be one of them. Of a swanky Long Island doubles tourney he wrote last week: "In the opening game [John Hay Whitney] . . . standing near the penthouse on the service side . . . drove the ball into the winning gallery on the hazard side for the deciding point. ... In the final game ... he boasted the ball to the main wall to find the dedans on his return of service. Then, changing sides to play off chases, he found the nick no less than three times with his service...
Unlucky Millions. Few happy endings have come out of the mass migrations of at least nine million Germans from East Prussia, Danzig, Silesia, Pomerania and the Sudetenland. It is a tale of horror, old men starving on the roads, young girls raped in boxcars, children who will never find their parents or remember anything of childhood except cold and hunger and the fear of more cold and hunger...
...V.D.M.T.- "V.D.M.T.-" G.I.s in Europe, hearing these cryptic initials aired again & again over the American Forces Network, were intrigued. They were supposed to be. Captain Frank Danzig, peacetime CBS man, dreamed up the V.D.M.T. in response to an Army...