Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia, which was ready to let the plane-shooting incident be lost in diplomacy's shuffle, went a tart note from Acting Secretary of State Dean Acheson, demanding indemnity payments for the five flyers killed and the two planes lost...
...note to Warsaw (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) offered some stern pointers on Poland's impending November elections, which, according to the Yalta and Potsdam conferences, are to be free & unfettered...
...view of "serious irregularities" during the recent referendum (including widespread suppression of Vice Premier Mikolajczyk's Peasant Party-TIME, July 8), the note declared: "[The U.S.] Government wishes to emphasize its belief that, inter alia, it is essential for the carrying out of free elections that 1) all democratic and anti-Nazi parties be allowed to campaign freely without arrest or threat of arrest . . . 2) all such parties are represented on all electoral commissions, and ballots are counted in the presence of [their] representatives . . . 3) results will be published immediately ... 4) there shall be an adequate system of appealing...
Britain seconded the U.S. note in almost identical language. It also added a compelling postscript: until free elections are assured, Britain would not return to the Polish Government the $16 million of Polish gold (shipped to London at the start of World...
Finally one of them turned on the new Denverites. "Mrs. Molly Mayfield," whose breezy lovelorn column is the top feature in Scripps-Howard's tabloid Rocky Mountain News, had received a chiding note from the wife of an Eastern oilman. "When Denver women speak," it sniffed, "it sounds to me like the grinding of a buzz saw. Their voices are harsh and grating. They send shivers up my spine. Even those who have gone to such good Eastern schools as Bryn Mawr, Wellesley, Smith, etc., speak in an absolutely rude and unrefined manner...