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...homeward. While waiting, Foreign Minister T. Josowang paid public tribute to Korean troops with the Red Army and with the Chinese Communists, who last month suddenly sponsored a Korean Independence League (TIME, Aug. 20). "We welcome any al lies," he said, "marching in ... for the purpose of liberating . . . the fatherland...
...bluntly told the Russian-backed Bulgarian Fatherland Front Government, in which Communists hold the strategic posts, that the U.S. is not satisfied that the Government is "adequately representative of" all of Bulgaria's democratic elements, or that the elections scheduled to be held this week will be "free from the fear of force and intimidation...
Ernst ("Putzi'') Hanfstaengl, Harvard graduate and ex-pianist-in-waiting to the ex-Führer, prepared to return to the fatherland after six years in British custody. Home Secretary Sir Donald Somervell announced that Putzi, who last saw Germany in 1937, was not on the Allies' list of war criminals...
...Bethink yourselves. You have sinned against godliness and the laws of your fatherland. Farewell...
This ivory-tower ignorance persisted in the most unexpected places. In Sendenhorst, correspondents came upon towering, grey-haired Count Clemens von Galen, renowned Catholic Bishop of MUnster and fearless critic of the Nazi regime since its inception. Instantly the prelate made it clear that he was "loyal to the Fatherland," and must therefore consider the Allies as enemies. His uppermost concern was the spread of Communism in Germany. To him all the liberated, wandering slaves were "Russians," plundering German homes. As for the western Allies: "I hope the future will bring a time when we will all be good neighbors...