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...first months after V-E Day, the Western allies in Germany, swallowing hard, bundled thousands of unwilling and sometimes struggling refugees from Communist domination into trains, and sent them back to death or slavery in Communist hands. The allies did this wicked thing to prolong the "honeymoon" with Soviet Russia. When Russia itself ended the honeymoon, the practice of involuntary repatriation stopped-to the vast relief of all men of good will...
...blessing all to herself for seven years, for the gallant Charles-Edouard goes off to the wars, and it is a good year or so after V-E day before he turns up in Britain again. Then he sweeps Grace, little Sigi and Nanny off to a new life in France...
...Since V-E day, U.S. authorities in Germany have rounded up 700,000 stolen works of art and returned them to the countries they came from, said the State Department last week. Not included: Hungary's historic crown of St. Stephen, one of the items demanded by Hungarian Reds as ransom for the release of U.S. Businessman Robert Vogeler (TIME, April 30). State's reason for hanging on to the crown, in stiffest diplomatese: the U.S. "does not regard the present juncture as opportune or appropriate...
...last and most important battle on Okinawa, which was to become the base for the B-29s' final murderous raids on Japan. At Okinawa, the division was no longer alone-it was part of an amphibious force with the 6th Marine Division and the XXIV Army Corps. By V-E day, the 1st had won 19 Congressional Medals of Honor, 71 Navy Crosses and a large number of other honors, including 18,337 Purple Hearts...
Change & Continuity. In 1942, Carlton Hayes uprooted himself from Columbia to become, for three wartime years, Franklin Roosevelt's ambassador to Spain. His mission: to help persuade Dictator Franco that there was no future for him in entering World War II on the side of the Axis. After V-E day he hurried back to teaching. "That," he explained, "is my life...