Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trieste was the test. Byrnes had been stubborn on one point: the city would not be handed over to Tito. But at the meetings Byrnes showed great flexibility on details ; although opposed in general to internationalized cities (too much like Danzig), he was even willing to see Trieste put under international control for five or ten years. Molotov waited quietly for word from his Vozhd (boss) in Moscow...
...Equality of Dissatisfaction." Since Stalin had probably promised Trieste to Tito, any solution would have to save face all around. France's Georges Bidault, doing a magnificent job as conciliator in the midst of his other troubles (see FOREIGN NEWS), hit on just the right phrase: "We are striving here for an equality of dissatisfaction...
With the help of three-inch elevated shoes, Tito Schipa looked all of five-feet-five last week at Paris' Salle Pleyel. When he sang L'Elisir d'Amore and Don Giovanni he brought the house down. He gave so many encores that for a while it seemed that only firehoses could send the cheering mobs home...
Three days earlier 57-year-old Tito Schipa (pronounced skeepa) made his first operatic appearance outside the Axis belt since he left the Metropolitan in 1941. He did Manon at the Opera-Comique. Next fall Schipa plans to make a U.S. concert tour. Schipa is defiant of reporters who want to make something of his wartime singing in Italy. Says he: "I am no Communist! I am no Fascist! I sing good and Mussolini give me a medal! So what...
When the U.S. and Britain threw their support to Tito, Mihailovich, too weak or too weary to control his subordinates, turned more & more toward collaboration. His major crime-unpardonable in war and politics-was failure. "Partisan troops," said Draja Mihailovich last week, "turned out better than I expected...