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German assets abroad were also divided and, more important, placed under rigid control. Russia took the assets in eastern satellite countries (Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland); the Western Allies got the much greater share in the rest of the world...
...Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Holsti saved his country from starvation after World War I by a successful appeal to Herbert Hoover for food. When Nazi domination of Finnish affairs sent him packing in 1940 he found refuge as a professor at Hoover's Stanford University. Generally credited for Finland's prompt war-debt payments, he had a practical foreign policy: "A small country can never have too many friends or too few enemies...
...Three "have no doubt" that in future "representatives of the Allied press will enjoy full freedom to report to the world upon developments in Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland." Yugoslavia was not included; the Russians took the convenient view that Tito's Government should decide its own press policy without Big Three interference...
...Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, the communiqué by no means insured free access to the Russian-dominated zone. The Russians themselves, with a fundamentally different conception of the role of the press, had only a handful of Tass men in the Balkans. Nor could they understand why the U.S. and British governments had transmitted applications for scores of reporters to enter the area. U.S.-Russian understanding on a free press was still unfinished business...
...Other Strode books: Timeless Mexico, The Story of Bermuda, Finland Forever...