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Just outside the gateway to Milan's 33rd annual fair last week, an enormous yellow sign bore the proud legend: "1945-1955-ten years of work for a free and respected fatherland.' Inside, at the biggest industrial fair in Italian history, were the results of Italy's postwar labors, helped by some $3 billion in U.S. funds. Stretching over 100 acres were futuristic exhibit halls and brightly painted booths of 9,400 Italian firms-and 4,000 foreign companies that wanted to sell in Italy's expanding markets. In the two weeks of the fair, some...
...Austria will be free," Chancellor Julius Raab triumphantly telephoned back from Moscow to Vienna. "We get back our homeland in its entirety. The war prisoners and other prisoners will see their fatherland again." The Austrian state radio burst into Strauss waltzes and victory marches. The little band of Austrians headed by Raab himself had had little reason to hope for such success when they took off for Moscow last week. For ten long years, and through close to 400 negotiating sessions, the Russians had blocked every Western move to end the occupation of the country which they had promised...
Frustration in the Palace. After three hours and 15 minutes of sporadic fire, the Binh Xuyen were just about ready to quit. "Warmest compliments . . . The Fatherland is proud of you," Diem signaled his young soldiers-but into the midst of free South Viet Nam's first small victory wheeled a black French Citroen, a French general inside it. "Cease fire! Assume defensive positions!"the Frenchman ordered the astonished Vietnamese...
...Africa, which had vanished from a Naples exhibition in 1940, was picked up by a U.S. soldier during World War II. Said the U.S. ambassador: "We Americans are [happy] that an infinitely more precious Italian possession, the city of Trieste, has also been restored to the beloved fatherland." Off next morning for Trieste University, Ambassador Luce was greeted by the school's rector, who gave her a silver medal and a blue, scoop-shaped law student's hat with a fringed brim. The professors who picked the hat explained that it not only went well with her present...
...Americans a worse third (2%). Nevertheless, the poll showed, the G.I. as occupier is more popular than he has ever been: 57% of the Germans think that relations with the U.S. troops are better than last year, and 71% want the U.S. soldiers to stay and help defend their fatherland. Why? Because...