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Paris they fight for an arrangement which will allow Yugoslavia to dominate Trieste. In Berlin they carry on a continued press campaign against the Western World but ban our newspapers from their sector if they contain the slightest criticism of Soviet policy. . . . They always appeal to the Potsdam accord when it serves their ends and violate it when it suits their purposes...
TIME states [Sept. 23]: ". . . In the ruins of Berlin's Russian sector there appeared last week a large neat sign" carrying a quotation from Stalin...
This same sign was displayed on many Berlin street corners when I was there in mid-July, 1945. The Russians (who got there first) had set it up in what were to become the American and British sectors as well as in their own. British military police were busy tearing down this and similar Russian signs in the British sector. The official explanation (given, deadpan, by a British Army Public Relations officer): "Conservation of lumber...
Lieut, General John R. Hodge, commander of U.S. occupation forces, declared martial law for Kyongsang-Pukto Province. Communist agitators could find receptive audiences in some sectors of the U.S. zone. Monumentally ill-equipped at war's end to occupy or govern Korea, the U.S. is still trying to live down initial errors: the bad feeling created by retaining Japanese police, however briefly, as a temporary control force (the Soviets booted them quickly and efficiently in the north) ; a willingness to string along with doddering Korean oldsters, instead of young, competent and popular leaders; the crowning fiasco of abandoning rice...
Intense nocturnal activity at the University Observatory is expected tonight and throughout the early part of the week as the star gazers train their telescopes skyward for an aerial fireworks show of thousands of meteors, calculated to make their debut in the Boston sector of earth's atmosphere at 10 o'clock Wednesday...