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...note's exact contents were still unknown last week. But it meant just one thing to wishful, boyish King Peter: the U.S. agreed with him that the provisional government of Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz needed a lot of improvement. Thus emboldened, King Peter withdrew his previous approval of the government, announced that he had accepted the unoffered "resignation" of its No. 1 figure in London, Premier Ivan Subasich. In short, King Peter tried to force Subasich...
...sought to avoid "unnecessary . . . political controversy." Mr. King had hoped that McNaughton, needing a seat in Parliament, would be unopposed. Instead, the two opposition parties were stirring up controversy. This attitude in wartime, said Mr. King, was "unwarranted and unworthy." He warned that unless the two opposing candidates withdrew, "it will obviously be the duty of the Government to consider whether any useful purpose could be served by attempting to hold another session of Parliament." Even if General McNaughton should win a contested election, said Mr. King, he doubted whether another session of Parliament would be advisable...
...Communist Party, the central group in EAM? ELD (Union of Popular Democracy) and SKE (Socialist Party of Greece), two of the biggest parties, both of which recently broke with EAM, had issued statements. The Central Committee of the SKE declared that: "It refused all responsibility for, and withdrew itself from, the EAM bloc as soon as it was informed of the armed breach which took place without consultation...
...Scott's commanding officer was killed in this action, and control of the ship passed to Comdr. Tully, who was injured himself. In spite of serious damage, the ship's guns destroyed the enemy batteries, and she withdrew under her own power...
Faced by this sudden threat to its rear, the Seventh withdrew from its two footholds in Germany. Then the Germans began shelling Haguenau, a main communications center in northern Alsace. On the west bank of the upper Rhine, they attacked the French around the Colmar pocket. And they threw tanks across the Rhine, north and south of Strasbourg...