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Died. Dr. Julio Prestes de Albuquerque, 63, president-elect (in 1930) of Brazil who was driven into exile (in France and Portugal) by the Vargas revolution; in Sao Paulo, whither he had lately returned...
Uproar, Silence. Next day, correspondents and photographers jammed into the opening session of the conference in the Throne Room, whither princes of the Japanese imperial blood once came to receive their Korean vassals. Shaggy Koreans crept between the chairs, stood on benches, snapped hundreds of pictures. A few appeared as blobs in the Korean press next morning...
During his years in the U.S., Pertinax (real name: André Géraud) had lost none of his reputation for perspicacity. In New York and in Washington, whither he moved in 1943, he was often a better source on European politics than reporters in Europe. He was the first to predict the Teheran conference between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. In November 1943 he suggested a United Nations Council, with headquarters in the U.S. He tactfully called it "the Big Four," leaving out his still-prostrate France. Long before most others did, he foresaw Marshal Tito's triumph over...
...made a mistake. Yalta had made it clear that France rated no higher in Moscow than in London and Washington. Then France demanded changes in Dumbarton Oaks and, to her surprise, it was Stalin rather than Roosevelt or Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
...Athens, whither he had flown from Moscow, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was given the keys of the capital, shown the Acropolis (unharmed by the Germans). While crowds were parading in his honor, an Army officer, who disliked being tagged a collaborationist, shot and killed a member of the EAM. To Britain's Foreign Secretary this punctuation mark was a reminder that Britain's Greek sphere of influence is far from tranquil. The week before, Athens' tumultuous liberation outburst had been cut short when the leftist EAM and the rightist EDES fought it out during the celebration...