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Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin got along strikingly well. Stalin's dislike of Winston Churchill and his long-winded speeches was never more apparent. Once, when Churchill voiced a detailed bill of complaint against Russian plundering in southeastern Europe, Stalin merely grunted; his interpreter said that he had no comment. Truman sprang up, said that he had investigated the British charges and was prepared to substantiate them. Stalin twinkled, pointedly replied: "I will believe the Americans...
...time last week 80,000 workers were on strike, including 5,000 at the Crosley Corp. in Cincinnati, 7,500 at the Southeastern Shipbuilding Corp. in Savannah. There were 40 work stoppages throughout the nation; new ones threatened daily as the old ones ended. Even the oldtime prewar gags to attract picket-line attention reappeared - in Hollywood, of course...
...Partition. The partition of Germany into occupation zones, long both a problem and a mystery, was a mystery no longer. In Berlin the Russians would control the central city plus the industrial northern and eastern sections. Britain would control the western and northwestern suburbs, the U.S. the south and southeastern suburbs. In western and southern Germany the U.S., Britain and France would occupy zones comprising about half of the country's area, more than half its. population, less than half its food resources...
From strong-willed Queen Mary, the Belgian Queen received right royal counsel: Leopold must "be a King." Luxembourg's Grand Duchess Charlotte asked King Leopold to pay her a visit. Luxembourg is Belgium's southeastern neighbor. From St. Wolfgang, King Leopold promptly announced that there was "no question of abdicating," that he was proceeding with the formation of a new government...
Typhus raged last winter in southeastern Europe. According to unofficial reports, there were 30,000 cases in Moldavia (Rumania) alone. Germany, which never used to have typhus, had 5,000 cases among slave laborers in 1943. But only two cases have appeared in France and Belgium. The Russians, who died of it by thousands in World War I, have reported little typhus in World...