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...different our views." The commissions made some headway on boundaries and reparations. On the thorny subject of reparations they agreed: from Italy, $325 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece, Ethiopia; from Hungary and Rumania each, $300 million to Russia, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia; from Bulgaria, $125 million to Greece and Yugoslavia; from Finland, $300 million to Russia. The principle of freedom of the Danube was voted, 8-to-5, but Russia & friends (who control most of the river) voted no. And the working sessions failed entirely to produce a statute for the contemplated Free Territory of Trieste, leaving that subject...
Americans who doubt that the Kremlin has a master plan would do well to observe the flexibility with which it has adapted its methods of control to its strength in the satellite countries. Thus, in Finland, Soviet control, while strong, is practically invisible. In Czechoslovakia, where Communists have tight control of the government, there is a high degree of popular democracy. Yugoslavia, with its Communist dictatorship, is practically a part of the Soviet Union. In Rumania, where Communists are 2% of the population, it has moved cautiously...
...East-West struggle for Germany and Austria, the heart of Europe's peace problem, was being waged in Germany and Austria. Paris was only haggling over the peripheries of the peace-Italy, Finland, the Balkans. But they were rough edges, and the Big Four had left many a major issue unsettled in the treaty drafts: the Italo-Yugoslav and Greco-Bulgarian borders, the exact status of Trieste, reparations, Danubian free trade, the disposition of the Italian colonies. Of these problems the delegates of the 21 nations at Paris had not yet solved a single...
...this, including the fair warning to Satan, was the work of an extraordinary army of 75,000 invading and noisy militants-from Finland, Argentina, Scotland, Mexico and every corner of the U.S. They were encamped on the shores of Lake Erie for the Glad Nations Theocratic Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses...
This means that Finland must build up her metal and engineering industry-for which she will have trouble finding any future customer, except Russia, after reparations are fully paid. At present, at least a tenth of Finland's national income goes for reparations, which will run for six more years...