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...Balkans (see FOREIGN NEWS) would they have much success in judging the words by the realities. There, the reiterated refusal of the U.S. to recognize "any government imposed upon any nation by the force of any foreign power" was all too clear to the Russians. Elsewhere, in focal Germany, in restive Asia, words and numbered paragraphs which seemed explicit enough to Americans at home would seem vaguely general to the Russians, Britons, Chinese, et al. trying to evaluate them, and to the U.S. officials charged with applying them. Still needed were clear directives, clearly integrated actions to make the policy...
...public opinion, still confused, was somewhat soothed. But the week's give & take had made it all too clear that Berlin, until lately one place where Big Power relations were good, had become a focal point of international bad temper...
Grand Central's stardusted ceiling has always been a focal point for both esthetic and astrological controversy. On at least one point-placement of Zodiac signs and constellations-Designer James Monroe Hewlett came a cropper. As one letter-to-the-editor writer once informed the New York Times: "The ceiling stars were all put on exactly backward. Their arrangement ii a mirror image. . . . This reversal is, of course, as confusing as a map showing New York on the West Coast and San Francisco on the East. . . otherwise, very accurate...
...four sub-govern ments. The first purpose of this technically coordinated quartering was to keep Germany impotent. Wisely applied by powers solely devoted to that aim, it might achieve the purpose. But defeated Germany was something more than a nation to be held down: it was also a focal area in the never-ending contest for power in Europe, and the world...
...Zossen, only 20 miles from Berlin, a special mission of 650 U.S. heavies spread fire and ruin over a large barracks, reportedly the German General Staff's Headquarters. At Swinemünde, ships loading supplies for Stettin got it hot & heavy. At Oranienburg, a focal rail point for the Oder front, more than 700 U.S. bombers put on the strangle. Berlin was hit with a record U.S. attack (1,300 bombers, 700 fighters) on rail yards and armaments factories. British Mosquitoes went into their fifth week of unbroken nightly bombings of the German capital. Re-rigged R.A.F. Lancasters flew...