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Other echoes of Red Army sabers rattled through Europe. From Paris, the New York Times's chief foreign correspondent Cyrus Leo Sulzberger reported that "certain [Red Army] units" around Trieste and in southeastern Germany had "been put on the qui vive." Next day, the Times's chief military analyst Hanson Weightman Baldwin mildly pooh-poohed such rumors, declared that the Red Army was demobilizing. His estimate of remaining occupation forces: 2,000,000 plus...
...main question has been over the message that we shall send to MacArthur. . . . On talking with the President this morning over the telephone, I suggested and he approved the idea that we should send the final alert; namely, that he should be on the qui vive for any attack...
France's women (including Mme. Pleven, a smoker), fierce in their newly won political freedom, started to fight for social liberties as well. Last week, five weeks before the general elections, M. Pleven surrendered, officially admitted la femme qui fume into French civilization: starting December, women will receive tobacco rations...
Short decided that an anti-sabotage alert was enough. This was the position in which the Jap carrier planes found him, with his planes parked wing-to-wing on the airstrips and his guards on the qui vive for saboteurs...
Malaria "has been reduced to one-fourth its incidence in the early part of the war so that the overall death rate from malaria in the Army is .01%. . . . Atabrine has been found more effective . . . than qui nine." Most effective preventive: mosquito eradication by the wonder insecticide D.D.T...