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...like the old saying, "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost," and so on up to the loss of a kingdom. But it worked in reverse, like this: the Big Four's Foreign Ministers in Manhattan could write all five peace treaties (Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania, Finland) if they could write the Italian treaty; they could write the Italian treaty if they could agree on Trieste; they could agree on Trieste if they could fix the U.N.-appointed governor's powers; they could fix the governor's powers if they could decide who would boss...
Clearing the Air. At Paris, Russia and the West had struggled over seemingly picayune points of the treaties with Italy, Finland, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria. Yet all the issues had a bearing on the fate of all Europe, set the framework for the critical struggle over the German treaty. The Big Four at the Waldorf were likely to reach the German treaty in an atmosphere greatly clarified since six months...
...Mussolini, I am sorry to say, liked me very much" for a time, but in later years Malaparte appealed successfully to Count Ciano for protection against the Duce's wrath. When the war came he had no trouble getting accredited to German armies in the Ukraine, Poland and Finland. The publisher's jacket, which tells none of this, describes Malaparte only as a man who dodged the Gestapo and ducked the Fascists...
...Soup & Potatoes. This hatred of Moscow is as strong as anywhere in Finland, which I found in extremely critical condition. The food situation is so bad that restaurants in small towns have only two items on the bill of fare: pea soup and boiled potatoes. Coffee and sugar are practically unheard of even in swank black-market restaurants. Clothing is made from wood pulp, liquor (schnapps) is distilled from wood alcohol, most automobiles are woodburning...
...found much of interest in Finland. I became acquainted with the work of Vaino Altonen, a sculptor who is practically unknown outside Finland but who should rank as one of the finest alive. I found what is perhaps the world's finest work in art ceramics being done in Helsinki's Arabia porcelain works, Finland's largest manufacturer of tiles, bathtubs...