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...started when Richard C. Patterson Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to the exiled Yugoslav Government in London, delivered a U.S. note to 21-year-old King Peter II. On at least two counts this note was historic: 1) it precipitated an unholy international mess; 2) it was the first specific application of the principle laid down by President Roosevelt in his recent state-of-the-nation message (TIME, Jan. 15)-that the U.S. now wants to see that liberated Europe's temporary (or "provisional") governments do not become permanent tyrannies...
Hell popped. Winston Churchill thundered at King Peter, his onetime protege. Ambassador Patterson visited the King day after day, trying to explain that the U.S. had not expected and now deplored his breaking with Tito just before the second Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting. Peter swallowed his pride and consulted his displeased parent, Queen Mother Marie. At Egham House in Surrey, Mr. Subasich had an emotional session with the King and the ladies of the royal family: Queen Mother Marie; Peter's young wife, pregnant Queen Alexandra; and her mother, Greek Princess Aspasia...
Everyone was sure that the minority included the representatives of the Patterson-McCormick papers (Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Washington Times-Herald). That very day, Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson's Times-Herald had printed a grisly spread: a page of photographs of American fighting dead, accompanied by a 1940 quotation from Franklin Roosevelt: "... I shall say it again and again and again: your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars...
Next day, George DeWitt was no longer the Times-Herald's managing editor. Washington heard that he had told Cissie Patterson, "either that layout goes, or I go." The layout stayed...
Particularly miffed because Caniff had not given it a chance to outbid Field, the Tribune-News syndicate also had a severe case of the haughties. The News's Publisher Joe Patterson had been virtually a stepfather to Terry: he chose Terry's name from 50 submitted by Caniff, himself added and the Pirates, and suggested the strip's Oriental locale. Now Joe Patterson will have to find someone else to match Caniff's slick draftsmanship, crackling dialogue and skilled adventure story. For his part, Caniff will have to create an entirely new character-cast and story...