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...Crowley was in the midst of the Anglo-American economics talks (see INTERNATIONAL) when he sat down and wrote out his resignation from FDIC, a post he had held since the dark days of 1934. In his letter to the President he said nothing about resigning from FEA, but Harry Truman promptly accepted his resignation from both jobs. Then the President wiped out FEA, handed its most important functions to the State Department...
...yarn was an allegory of conflicting Big Power attitudes in Eastern Europe. The Anglo-Americans contended that in the Russian-dominated countries one kind of dictatorship had replaced another. The Russians answered that if their Balkan regimes fell, the men who had welcomed the Nazis would creep back into power, just as "Duce" had reappeared on Trieste's rock...
...stiffening of the U.S. attitude on eastern Europe, Russia had climbed down a little way. It realized at last that the Western powers held a potent threat: they could refuse to sign peace treaties with puppet governments in Eastern Europe. For a fortnight the Russian press raged against Anglo-American interference with internal affairs of sovereign Balkan nations. London denied the charge of Balkan intrigue. Once the U.S. and Britain had taken a firm stand, direct intervention was not necessary to encourage democratic elements in eastern Europe which looked to the West for both economic aid and political sympathy...
...Byrnes sharply castigated loose talk that the U.S. might give away the secret (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). In London, however, there was persistent cackle about placing the bomb at the disposal of the United Nations Security Council, to threaten or punish an errant nation-while keeping the actual technique an Anglo-U.S. secret as long as possible...
...Vienna correspondent, Gedye was a lone wolf. He steered clear of the Cafe Louvre, where such mutually admiring members of the Anglo-American press club as Marcel Fodor. John Gunther and Dorothy Thompson talked away the days over Kaffee mit Schlagobers, and pooled their findings. He drifted around the country, wrote excellent travel and history books on Austria...