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...Chetniks had pretty well dropped out of the fighting; there was much questioning about Mihailovich's attitude toward the Allies. But the eclipse of Mihailovich did not mean the eclipse of the Serbs: they form a sizable fraction of the Partisan armies, and in its proposed framework for a federation of seven Yugoslav states (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sanjak, Montenegro, Macedonia) the Partisan National Liberation Council has given the Serbs a predominant part...
...State Department looked unhappy. Secretary Hull was not quoted. Reporters who knew the Department's hostility to such alignments in Europe roared with laughter when a spokesman intoned: "It [the Treaty] is not to be understood to be in conflict with the general framework of worldwide security...
...that the barrage reminded them of El Alamein. Under its shield they went forward and uphill, overran a heavy line of Jerry dugouts and trenches, took hundreds of prisoners. Elated Monty sent his men congratulations: "In two days you wrested from the enemy the ridge . . . which was the whole framework of [his] winter line on the Adriatic. . . . A very fine performance...
...world's wealth to put the world back on its feet† The plan proposes that the governments of the world pool part of their financial resources, search out needed investments, and underwrite those that private capital will not-or cannot be expected to-handle. Its framework: > The United Nations Bank would have a total capital of $10 billion (expressed in "Unitas" equal to $10 in gold), in nontaxable, nontransferable $100,000 shares, to be divided among the United Nations by "an agreed-upcn formula" based on "relevant data" such as the amount of national income and foreign trade...
This tight framework lends itself to all kinds of manipulation, because fire risk varies from city to city and because supervision of fire insurance varies just as widely from state to state. Sample case cited by Attorney General Francis Biddle: the fire insurance rate on a farmhouse in Virginia, where state regulation is relatively tight, is about half the cost of the same coverage just over the border in North Carolina...