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* German question, but “one must
be sure the Germans would be
free” and not left to the mercies of
“some well organized minority.”
The American war crimes court
completed reading its marathon
decision against 13 leading Ger
man militarists. Eight more gener
als, previously cleared of plotting
t omake war and conspiracy, were
convicted of other war crimes.
Three were convicted yesterday.
An admiral and field marshal were
acquitted.
C o m m u nists controlling the
French unions ordered a blockade
of fuel by sea and land to France
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in support of more than 300,000
coal miners they have on strike.
Miners were called to mobilize for
battle as troops moved to take over
additional northern mines which
are struck.
Foreign aid officials in Washing- |
ton said they expected to ask Con- ;
gress to add $1,200,000,000 to the
$3,055,000,000 European Recovery
program to run it through next
June. The French coal strike is
one of the communist weapons
against the ERP.
What looked like a decisive bat
tle for control of Manchuria and
North China started between Chin
hsien and Tahushan near the Great
Wall, between nationalist and com
munist troops. Korea counted her
dead from a communist-led revolt
which was crushed.
Peru had another revolution
when the army garrison revolted
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at Arequipa in the south. A Peru
vian revolt was put down at Cal
lao 25 days ago.
Markos Vafiades, the Greek
communist, was reported by a
former UNRRA official to have
offered a peace plan. Newsmen in
Paris were told it called for with- '
drawal of the American and Bri
tish troops from Freece, a coali
tion government of all parties, a
free election under U. N. super- |
vision, amnesty for political exiles
and prisoners and full liberty to
labor unions.
High authorities of the U. N. are
urging Gov. Thomas E. Dewey,
should he be elected President
Tuesday, to make known his stand
quickly on U. S. foreign policies.
Otherwise, some delegates said, the
U. N. might as well close shop un
til it can find which way the U. S.
will go next year.
Friday, October 29, 1948
United Nations sources said to
day prime minister Stalin’s harsh
but inaccurate attack against the
western powers might have come
from fear that world opinion is
turning against Russia.
Stalin yesterday accused the
United States, Britain and France
of pursuing a policy of “unleash
ing a new war” over Berlin. The
big three western powers prompt
i yl denied his assertions that the
1 west backed out of two agreements
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for ending the Berlin blockade.
They have accused Russia of en
dangering peace by the four
month-old blockade.
U. N. informants said the state
ments from the Russian dictator
were the most defensive he ever
has made. Some delegates added
western power policies apparently
are having some effect on the
Kremlin.
The British foreign office ex
pressed surprise that Stalin re
sorted to “the familiar features of
Russian propaganda.”
Russia was rebuffed on another
front. The state department made
it plain the U. S. will reject the
strange Soviet demand for a report
an Gen. MacArthur’s military con
ferences with American command
ers at Tokyo.
The department denied also
Russian assertions that the U. S. is
building the Yokosuka navy yard
into a modern base.
American official thinking in
terpreted the Stalin assertions and
the Russian nosing into MacAr
thur’s business as efforts to picture
the U. S. as a nation preparing for
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Birlhday—His l^ast
CHICAGO, <Ai)—A doomed vic
tim of paralysis, whose plight has
touched persons in all parts of the
nation, observed his seventeenth
birthday Wednesday happily, he is
unaware that his doctors say it
will be his last.
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Paul Nelson, Jr., has been com
pletely paralyzed since August,
1947, when his spinal cord was in
jured in an automobile accident.
Jim Manske, a sympathizer in
Anchorage, sent Paul a telegram
wishing him “a happy birthday
from the top of the world.”
He was recently taken home
from a hospital when doctors said
he had only a few more weeks to
live.
war while Russia leads a great
world movement for peace.
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