Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wine, Old Bottle. In Hollywood, somebody stole Calven Walsten's car, returned it with a new fuel pump, new fuel line, new tire, a note of apology...
...closely typed, brusquely written pages, the U.S. Government last week nailed down the responsibility for Hungary's desperate economic condition. In a note which Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith delivered to the Kremlin. Washington put the blame squarely on Soviet occupation measures. Items...
Gold & Yalta. The Soviet Government, in its own analysis of the Hungarian crisis, had charged that the U.S. was keeping in its German and Austrian zones $3 billion of property which the Nazis had taken from Hungary. Said the U.S. note: "The [Soviet estimate] is grossly exaggerated. The most important single item of Hungarian property in the American zones appears to be ... gold . . . which amounts to approximately $32,000,000." This gold is now on its way back to Budapest...
...weakest nations in Europe, they nevertheless held their ground while Figl read to them what amounted to a Russian attempt to dictate Austrian legislation. The Parliament had before it Figl's bill to nationalize 81 industries, amounting to 50% of the country's production. The Russian note asked for 25 exceptions on the ground that they were "German assets" and therefore could be seized by Russia under the Potsdam agreement. The exceptions included the Zistersdorf oilfields, the Danube Shipping Company and almost all of Austria's chemical industry...
...year the Turks have lived, uneasy but defiant, under a Soviet threat. This week they moved a long way toward the democratic nations. They did not ask the West for help, nor did they send another tart note to Russia; they simply held an election-their first really free...