Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week the Council of Foreign Ministers achieved two notable agreements: 1) it gave a voice to smaller nations, and 2) it found a basis for settling the fate of Italian colonies...
...there as elsewhere to see joint trusteeships which would maintain an "open door to Africa." Of Trees & Brooks. The Trieste issue had descended to a technical problem much too minute to be handled at the Truman-Stalin-Attlee level. The city would almost certainly be internationalized, but its ultimate fate would depend on where lines were drawn in its hinterland. Racial and historical factors moved strings back & forth over detailed maps of Venetia Julia province. The watercourses were most important, because the nation that controlled them would be able to shut off Trieste's water supply...
...fate of prisoners who fell sick was hardly better. Many a man who was sent to the dirt-floored buildings of Shinagawa, lone hospital for 8,000 prisoners near Tokyo, simply went to his death. There was no sanitation; patients slept without blankets on flea-ridden mats. The operating tables were bare boards. When the hospital's crematorium was bombed to rubble, prisoners were forced to cremate the dead on spits over an open fire...
...home. In a closed car the Countess was driven by night across the Italian frontier, flown to Rome, then shipped to the Lipari Islands, once one of her father's favorite penitentiaries. Only thus could the authorities be sure they could save Edda from her father's fate. On her island she would be confined to an "apartment' until the "final disposition of her case...
With the East Coast oil shortage about over, the oil industry last week had a new worry-the fate of the government-owned Big Inch and Little Inch pipelines. Last week, the New York Journal of Commerce reported what the industry would like to do about the lines. It plans to ask Congress to 1) shut them down completely, and 2) bar their sale to any oil company or group of companies...