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...When the stubborn House of Representatives balked at passing a bill which would merely have eliminated the poll tax for servicemen, Governor Arnall rushed to the chamber, dramatically told the House that, if it did not abolish the tax entirely, he would do so by executive decree. Thus scourged into line, the House and the Senate passed the repealer...
There was the stubborn fact of Greece. In the fighting between the British troops and ELAS, the Greek Communist Party had been the most aggressive section of the EAM. But no Communist Party undertakes an important action without Moscow's advice. The Soviet Government had remained scrupulously aloof from the fighting in Greece but Moscow could not escape the suspicion of having had some hand in the revolt...
There was the stubborn fact of Poland. Having recognized the Polish Government at Warsaw, it was unlikely that Russia would accept any major changes in it at the insistence of Britain and the U.S. Poland was a test problem of the Big Three meeting...
...perhaps the most stubborn fact of all was distrust. If the western Allies distrusted the aims of Russia, few could blame Marshal Stalin if he distrusted the aims of the western Allies. Europe was seething with social unrest. As the result of the war, immense political and social dislocations had taken place. Time & again Russia had demonstrated that she had a program, the will and the means to deal with this unrest. But neither Britain...
Perhaps Marshal Stalin had decided that the most stubborn fact of all was his allies' inability to decide what to do in Europe. Perhaps he thought that if he simply waited while his armies drove on, all Europe, including Germany, might eventually drop into his lap because there was nowhere else for it to drop. But his allies, too, were driven by a historic force, for they knew that if they failed to persuade Joseph Stalin to a united peace, even their united military victory would be a defeat...