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...weeks the Germans had been throwing heavy counterattacks, in one of which they lost 300 tanks in three days, against Soviet Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...
...Budapest had become a triple threat: 1) the reinforced city garrisons were in danger of complete encirclement, with retreat to Vienna's defense cut off; 2) Malinovsky's center and right wing were arching in a 50-mile-wide pincers movement for another possible entrapment; 3) Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin's big force southwest of Budapest was in position to swing north in a separate drive on Vienna...
Eight weeks ago Bulgaria bowed to the Red Army after 99 hours of war. In Moscow last week, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Petko Stainov signed an armistice with Russia, Britain, the U.S. The Allied commission was headed by Marshal Fedor I. Tolbukhin, who signed for Russia. Lieut. General J. A. H. Gammell signed for the Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean. In Moscow Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin had agreed on the joint signature. This was the first down dividend on the new Anglo-Russian good will. But Bulgaria was to remain under the Soviet High Command for military purposes...
Waiters brought on cold ham in aspic and Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden brought up Poland. His toast: "To Mr. Gusev [Fedor Gusev, Soviet Ambassador to Britain]. One night he shared a flying bomb with the so-called London Poles. All of us hoped this common experience might bring understanding between Mr. Gusev and Mr. Mikolajczyk [Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, of the Polish Government in Exile] which would bode well for the postwar world." All of the 40 guests drank to Gusev...
...Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, Soviet Ambassador Fedor Gusev, Britain's Sir William Strang...