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...last day of the old year a "highly responsible source" talked to Washington correspondents. He banged his white-knuckled fist on the desk and although not a blasphemous man, he swore bitterly. For he was brimming over with indignation that Americans in their ignorance should do anything so tragic...
Right now the one country that fits the specifications of the protocol-and fits them like the velvet glove on an iron fist -is Poland. But diplomatic relations between Russia and the Polish Goyernment in Exile have been suspended for months, and neither side seems keen to renew them. Last week the Polish Cabinet called a meeting to discuss the situation, then called it off when Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk was bedded with the flu. Polish press comment took the general line that Poland would be glad to join up, provided the Russians would guarantee Poland's pre-1939 borders...
...first in history. Now he could drop his incognito, step forth officially as Josip Broz, Croatian metalworker, Communist labor leader and fighter for Loyalist Spain against Francisco Franco. The new Marshal's first act: substitution of the conventional army salute for the Partisans' greeting-the clenched fist...
...time the attack was shorter but more intense. In shelters people bit their lips, held their heads in their hands. Into one, a woman in labor was brought moaning. Amid the dust of shuddering walls, the incessant beat of guns and bombs, she delivered her child, then shook her fist at the smoky ceiling and gasped: "God damn the English." All night long, dull explosions continued as time bombs went off or workmen dynamited dangerously weakened walls. By morning most of the fires were out. Smoke hung over the town; everywhere brigades of the Organisation Todt, foreign workers, war prisoners...
When such things start Publisher McCormick breathing through his mustache, there is no telling where the Tribune's fist will fall next: it may even hit the King of England. This time it was the New York press...