Word: fates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Area No. 2 of the Quebec discussions was on the fate of postwar Germany. Here the two principals kept mum. But it was obvious that a plan for the management of postwar Germany had received much attention. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden flew through heavy weather to bring a brief case full of British proposals. Treasury Secretary Morgenthau rushed to Quebec, presumably to discuss monetary and economic problems of occupied Europe. And Winston Churchill had with him a close chum, Lord Cherwell, whose genius for reducing difficult problems to clear charts and graphs has recently been applied to matters of currency...
...beyond the technical details of occupation, the question of Germany's fate was largely political. Russia, unrepresented at Quebec, must be considered. Reports from London said that Russia was disturbed over an Anglo-American "frontier" in Occupied Germany...
...mountains above Rimini the world's smallest republic, claiming to be Europe's oldest state, with 38 square miles of mountain territory and 12,900 inhabitants, accepted its fate with dignity. San Marino's Government decided that its Army of 78 men could not oppose the Wehrmacht, yielded to the German demand to open its roads. Allied artillery replied with gunfire...
Peace and Paralysis. Next in line were the Finns. Minus their chairman, Premier Antti Hackzell, who had suffered a stroke four hours before, they marched up to the Kremlin to learn their fate. Without audible comment they sent the terms to Helsinki. Then the Germans, on orders from Berlin, went back on their agreement to evacuate Finland, began to attack. Angrily, the Finns said a state of war existed with Germany, sent Foreign Minister Carl Enckell to Moscow to give the Government's answer. At week's end there was no sure sign whether Russia's terms...
André Malraux, 49-year-old revolutionary French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...