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...True, there was friction among the Allies, but it was not beyond repair. Indeed, open discussion of the friction might be a healthy sign. The Government's Izvestia ticked off samples of "developing cooperation": the recent food conference at Hot Springs, Va.; agreement on the economic rehabilitation of freed territory; the creation, at Stalin's suggestion, of the Inter-Allied Mediterranean Commission; the joint acceptance by the U.S.S.R., Britain and the U.S. of Italy's re-entry into the war as a cobelligerent...
After pondering this a jury convicted the Schmellers, dismissed charges against the company and the others. Five days later, Judge Emerich B. Freed handed out thumping sentences to each of the Schmellers: 10 years in jail, $10,000 fines. Commented the Cleveland Press: "The crime ... is one of the most despicable that can be committed in time...
...Freed from the heavy burden of expectation weighing on us for a long time, I now consider that the moment has come again to address myself to the German people without having to resort to lies, either to myself or to the public...
...naval terms-warships gained by the Allies, British and U.S. warships freed from the Mediterranean for work elsewhere-it was the second greatest naval victory of the war. (The greatest: the Japs' at Pearl Harbor...
Died. William Wymark ("W.W.") Jacobs, 79, for almost 50 years a favorite British humorist; after long illness; in London. For his comic Dickensian tales of London dockside life, beaky, grey-thatched Jacobs drew on boyhood experiences as the son of a Wapping wharf manager. With Many Cargoes (1896) he freed himself from a post-office clerkship. But though he culled some 17 volumes in the same vein for his 1931 omnibus, Snug Harbour, his best-known short story was the macabre The Monkey...