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...visit by keeping away from all ceremonies on the Navy's behalf, and limiting official recognition of Admiral Conolly's presence to a private cocktail party in the chargé d'affaires' home. Unlike the Navy, which thinks of Spain as a neglected sector of Western Europe's defense, State thinks that the only way to liberalize Franco's regime is through the hostility of U.S. opinion towards the Spanish dictator. Now, wailed DOS men, Franco would be harder than ever to liberalize. Undeniably, the Navy's independent foreign policy had bolstered Franco...
...Communists had been cleared from the Peloponnesus, Central Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Only 17,000 were left in the mountain strongholds of Vitsi and Grammos. Government generals sent the first units of their 65,000 U.S.-equipped troops into the Grammos sector, where the guerrillas had been expecting the main push. Five days later the government's main forces struck at Vitsi, split the Communist positions and cut off their westward retreat routes to Albania...
Supplies to the guerrillas from Tito's Yugoslavia had ceased completely, but Albania was still sending a steady stream of canned beef, jam, sugar, macaroni, guns & ammunition to the Communists' mountain positions. A U.S. officer inspecting the government's crack 9th Division in the Grammos sector saw heavy artillery fire directed against Greek forces from Albanian territory; a Dutch U.N. observer sitting on an upturned ammunition case neatly noted the positions of Communist guns in Albania. The Tirana radio last week charged that Greek government troops had invaded Albanian territory...
...weeks after V-E day, Colonel Frank L. Howley, sometime member of the Philadelphia advertising firm of Frank L. Howley & Associates, was full of black vengeance and pink optimism. Said the new boss of Military Government in Berlin's U.S. Sector: "If we bring food into Berlin, the only reason is that we don't want their rotten [German] corpses to infect our troops . . . The Russians have played their cards right across the board and all suspicion is gone." But the colonel learned better...
...desk to open his mail. On top of the pile was a blank sheet, marked with a single big F. That same day, in the seaside town of Rostock, the sidewalks were strewn with Fs torn from the newspapers. In Leipzig, Weimar, Potsdam and the Soviet sector of Berlin, white, chalked Fs appeared on the shells of bombed-out buildings. The F stood for Freiheit-freedom from Soviet terror...