Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some, perhaps, there was still something incongruous in the idea of Harry Truman being one of the Big Three. No such feelings animated the Russian soldiers who prepared the platform for the U.S.-Soviet victory celebration in Germany (see cut). And to plain citizens everywhere, looking at a map of the world's trouble spots, the urgency of a Big Three meeting was abundantly apparent (see INTERNATIONAL...
...Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander issued a blistering statement denouncing Marshal Tito's occupation of the city, New Zealand troops followed the Yugoslav example and went about the streets with automatic rifles. North of Trieste Tito withdrew some troops to the defensible line of the Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting, the one U.S. battalion in the city withdrew toward the main U.S. force at Gorizia. The New Zealanders remained, their tanks...
...getters go mad with civic joy. A general and reporters and newsreel cameramen will arrive the next day; their town is on the national map and the profits, they believe, can be enormous. They whip up banners on which Benny's name appears much smaller than that of his birthplace. But they can't find Benny's family, to receive the medal and act as peg for the exploitation...
Monty refused even to discuss such terms. With the ultimate gesture of military scorn, he took them into his tent and showed them where they stood-on his own battle operations map. Then he sent them off to lunch...
...final discussions went on through the afternoon and evening: there were endless technical details to be set down, mainly to guarantee the orderly transmission of surrender instructions throughout the shattered German military machine. Finally, at 2:41 a.m. on May 7, at a long wooden table, in the bare, map-walled "war room," the surrender was signed...