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...State Department announced that "messages from Ambassador [Richard C] Patterson indicate that the demands [of the U.S.] have been complied with," but reserved final action until Tito had fully "made right the wrong." In Belgrade, press and radio continued to charge repeated violations of Yugoslavia's sovereign air, accused the U.S. of a "campaign of calumny." This, week the U.S. transport service resumed its Vienna-Udine runs-now in flying fortresses with machine guns ready for action...
Warsaw spluttered over this "insult to Polish sovereignty" (but failed to protest the erection of Red Army roadblocks following anti-Russian disturbances near Bialystok, in sovereign Poland). The U.S. was especially invited to mind its own business. "And by own business," cracked a Pole in Washington, "we mean the Mississippi primaries...
...Balance of the Dead. Invaded and trampled by successive hordes of Greeks, Arabs, Saracens, Mongols, Persians, Tartars and Turks, the Armenians after World War I had turned tired but hopeful eyes to the Western powers to support their plea for a sovereign, free Armenian nation. But at Versailles their dream faded, while the Turks "regulated the Armenian question" by killing over...
...light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches to his feet and answers that the British government made certain information known to the Yugoslav government, but could not interfere further in a trial in a sovereign nation. And so the business goes on until the questions are exhausted. Then to the major business of the day, a full dress debate upon the future of the BBC, each speaker having been chosen in advance to represent all views. Some members leave the chamber, but the majority remain...
Renner is proud that Austria has a sovereign government with its own police force, vigorously reminds the Allies that Austria, unlike Germany, is to be treated as a liberated and not as a conquered nation, according to the Moscow pact.* He also keeps storming against Austria's partition into occupation zones. The quadripartition has completely paralyzed the Austrian economy. Renner also fights a running verbal battle (probably futile) for the return of Southern Tyrol, ably supported by Austria's Dr. Karl Gruber...