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...pawns in the cold war. The U.S. had influenced the Italian elections of 1948 by announcing that it favored return of the whole Free Territory to Italy. Yugoslavia also had claims on the Trieste area, and Yugoslav troops occupied the southern part of it, known as Zone B. When Marshal Tito left the Russian camp, the U.S. and Britain, whose forces occupy the rest of the Free Territory, had reconsidered. Anxious to keep Tito firm in his heresy, they began to urge Italy and Yugoslavia to settle the dispute...
...surprisingly, candidates nominated by Marshal Tito's People's Front in Zone B were mainly unopposed, invariably elected...
...Died. Marshal Fezvi Cakmak, 74, Turkish defender of the Dardanelles in World War I, hero of the war of liberation that overthrew Sultan Mohamed VI ; after long illness; in Istanbul. The only Turkish general besides Kemal Atatürk honored with marshal's rank, Cakmak served as army chief of staff for 20 years...
...family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics. When appointed to the Air Commission, he knew little about air power but he impressed all comers with his conscientious fairness and his ability to grasp and marshal facts. After the Finletter Commission report was finished he was appointed head of the EGA mission to Britain, stayed on until last summer...
Joan Braverman has been elected senior class marshal, Holly Walker '53, voting chairman, announced last night. Other seniors elected to offices for commencement include Jane Rainie, commencement chairman; Nancy Rodriguez, baccalaureate chairman; Mildred Blacklock, class night chairman; and Elaine Tanner, assistant class night chairman...