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Yugoslavia, trading hard on its cold war value to the West, wants all the Free Territory except the city of Trieste for itself, demands that the port be internationalized to keep it out of Italy's control. But diplomatic soundings in Belgrade suggested that Marshal Tito, though he would squawk, might be brought to settle for an arrangement that would leave him in control of the less populous Zone B part of the divided Free Territory of Trieste...
...first, hardheaded Marshal Tito reacted with comparative mildness. The Anglo-American plan was, in fact, almost identical to one the British say Tito approved privately less than a year ago in talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, except that the new plan does not try to freeze the division of territory. Tito called on his cops to quiet the street crowds, but the marching, chanting demonstrations spread. In his manipulation of the touchy Trieste issue, Tito had apparently whipped his people to a higher emotional pitch than he recognized, and intermixed the issue with his own prestige -a serious mistake...
...regards Mr. Abraham Edwards, marshal of Cambridge, it is said that he seized one of the students, a weakly-attenuated young man, and threw him over the fence and thereupon was handled rather roughly by some of the experts in boxing at the college. It is said that two of his eyes were blackened; hence his feeling in the matter and the issue of warrants for the arrest of the students...
...reported that Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, the loser at Stalingrad, is now serving 25 years at hard labor in a Soviet prison camp...
...Young Turks. The army, fearful of him, shunted him from post to post, but could neither shake him nor subdue him. At Gallipoli, in 1915, he defeated the British; in the Caucasus, he checked the Russians; in Berlin, 1918, he drunkenly needled the high panjandrum of his allies, Field Marshal von Hindenburg; in Arabia, 1918, he held off T. E. Lawrence's Bedouin hordes. At 38, he came out of the crash of the Ottoman Empire the only Turkish commander untouched by defeat...