Word: nationalization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What happened in Italy in the days just ahead would answer one vital question: Can Communists capture a nation where there is neither Red army nor Red police? The result would decide whether Italy would take her place with Western Europe (and Western Union) or with the satellite East. And that decision, in turn, would affect the worldwide question of war & peace. For it was a simple fact that Italy formed a precarious bulge in the West's defenses: if this battle of the bulge were lost, Communism would stand at the Alps and reach deep into the Mediterranean...
Finland's treaty was broadly patterned on similar pacts between Moscow and all its eastern European satellites. It barred Finland from becoming a base for aggression against the Soviet Union by "Germany or any nation allied with her," and provided that the two countries "will consult each other in event of a threat of military attack." Paasikivi and other Finns comforted themselves with this consultation clause, but the comfort was coldish. Moscow could dig up a "threat" any day it had a mind...
...Make Up Your Minds." The best that Western Germans could make of their two-thirds of the nation was considerable. There would be the prospect of quickening economic recovery through the European Recovery Program. Western Germany, now a three-headed monstrosity of Allied administration, would be brought back "into the family of those nations whose economy is so closely related by nature" to its own. And there would be achieved the unity of "an independent, freely elected representative government...
...faraway Lake Success, what Sheik Yaseen called "foreign interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...
...bare floodlit stage of Nanking's National Assembly hall strode the Gimo, erect and austere in five-starred military khaki. He took his stand under a backdrop portrait of Sun Yat-sen while 2,500 Assembly delegates applauded.Then Chiang Kai-shek reported on the state of the nation...