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Exhausted, shrunken Finland still had to disarm and intern remnants of the German Army, still had crushing domestic problems to settle, still had work and bread to find for her 3.6 million weakened people. But Finland still had her nominal independence...
...Maugham is such a subtle old sinner that it is a pleasure to hear him in the confessional, even if he goes there more to disarm his confessor than for the good of his own soul. The Absolute. His hero, who rambles through the lives of all the other characters, is Larry Darrel, a Chicago boy whose ready-made certainties were buried in World War I. He comes back from war unwilling to go to college, unwilling to settle down and marry wealthy Isabel Bradley-even indifferent to the Parisian fleshpots offered him by Isabel's expatriate Uncle Elliott...
...Wehrmacht had troops for the Balkans, long driven by guerrillas and now likely to lose their Italian garrisons. Additional Germans moved in, to control, disarm and eventually to replace the Italians in Yugoslavia, Greece and the island of Crete (where, Cairo heard, Germans battled Italians last week. If anything, these movements probably meant that the Allies would find more determined opposition from the Germans than they would have found before the Italian defections...
...biggest scapegoat was still the Anglo-Saxon enemy. To Allied promises to deal fairly with a non-Fascist Italy, the Duce replied: "Whoever believes in the enemy's suggestions is a criminal, a traitor and a bastard. . . . The enemy would disarm Italy down to her very sports guns. . . . Italy would become a geographical feature. . . . At this formidable juncture the Party must be the moving force of the nation's life...
...United Nations would not attempt military occupation of Axis countries-nor, to avoid future hates, would they attempt such drastic solutions as the dismemberment of Germany. Instead, they would grant their enemies the right to resume trade and shipping, would restore prewar commercial treaties, would themselves begin to disarm in preparation for a return to real peace...