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...Chastened by the row over the secret voting deal, Secretary Stettinius now let it be known that there had been one other big topic at Yalta not mentioned in the communiqué: the question of trusteeship of colonies and liberated areas. On this there would probably be a wide split of opinion among U.S. citizens, as there was certain to be between the U.S. on one side and Britain and France on the other. The U.S. Navy, for one, made its position clear last week (see Postwar). All Ed Stettinius would say was that there would be a Big Five...
...German sore spot. His loth Armored Division carved a startling 30-mile breakthrough to within 45 miles of the upper waters of the Danube. This was a delicate area for the Nazis-the Napoleonic route of invasion toward Vienna. Over it Patch's men might strike through to split Germany...
First came a whiplike crack. The rocket, traveling faster than sound, set up a compression wave which bounced from the point of strike and hit the ear a split second before the terrific crump as the explosive let go-just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments. Then, after V-2 had arrived, survivors heard the slower sound of its coming: an ear-filling roar which gradually diminished, finally losing itself...
Underground. Whether or not there were to be heroics on high, it was clear that there was to be Naziism underground. Allied officials said they had solid evidence of a Nazi plan to carry on from secret arsenals and secret cells until the Allied coalition split and a new, triumphant Reich could arise. Other sources added details...
...east Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky split land communications between Danzig and Gdynia and was closing a double set of prongs on the two cities. Farther east Marshal Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, 47-year-old Cossack, took Braunsberg, one-time stronghold of the Teutonic Knights...