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VOM^-NO. 231 WILMINGTON, N. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1944 FINAL EDITION
Anti-Horthy
Coup Staged
In Hungary
PRO-NAZIS take over
cet Up Own Government
And Create Chaos In
Their Nation’s Capital
LONDON, Oct. 16.—(£>)—
Fanatic pyo-Nazi Hungarians,
with the backing of the Ger
m a n army and Gestapo,
sought tonight to hold their
chaotic country in the war on
Germany’s side even as the
Russian invasion forces press
ed closer to Budapest.
While neutral sources pictured
the collapsing nation in a turmoil
of free-for-all fighting, the Nazi
sympathizers led by tempestuous
Ferenc Szalasi announced on the
Budapest radio that they nad
installed a new government after
“retirement'’ of Regent Admiral
Nicholas Horthy and the resigna
tionof Horthy’s government.
The broadcast included a state
ment that Horthy had agreed to
resign to make way tor Zalasi and
had issued a proclamation “revok
ing" the plea tor an armistice
which he had addressed to the Al
lies yesterday.
No indication of Horthy’s where
about was given.
The new government immedi
ately proclaimed imposition of a
stringent curfew on Budapest and
a series of repressive decrees tim.
ed at Jews and dissidents.
Air raid warnings sounded prac
tically clear across Hungary to
night and the Red army, fighting
on the central plains, was report
ed less than 50 miles frm Buda
pest.
Szasli has named himself acting
regent and prime miniser of Hun
gary, has appointed a new pro
German cabinet and, according to
the Budapest radio, named a new
regency council composedof Col.
Gen. Karoly Bereczky, who also
was named chief of staff and Mini
ster of defense; Dr. Ferenc Raj
niss. known as the “Hungarian
Goebbels." and Dr. Sandor Csia.
Breaking its silence on the re
cent Hungarian developments, the
Berlin radio tonight hailed the pro
Nazi coup in Budapest as a “fuil
vicotyr which marks the end of all
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GERMANS QUITTING
GREECE, NAZI HINT
HOME. Oct. 16 —IB— A German
withdrawal from Greece was indi
cated by Berlin today as a strong
British Naval force reached Pir
aeus, port of Athens, carrying
troops to reinforce Allies and
Greek patriot units liberating that
country.
A Berlin broadcast quoted a
German military spokesman as
saying that "because of the
German evacuation of Greece
the Balkan front will assume a
different aspect. Events there are
still very fluid. The decision in
this sector will fall later.”
There has been no direct word
on Athens from Allied headquar
ters since Saturday’s announce
ment of its liberation, but field
dispatches indicated the Germans
"•gaged in considerable demolition
before wtihdrawing.
Associated Press Correspondent
Sid Feder, in a delayed dispatch
datelined Athens, said the Ger
mans were reported to have burn
ed one western section of the an
c;ent city. In addition they blew
dp a huge supply dump and an
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Los Angeles police, Investigating
the murder of Georgette Bauer
dorg, 20, socialite heiress, learned
from her friend June Ziegler
(above) that the dead girl was
planning a trip by plane to El
Paso. An autopsy disclosed that
Georgette had been strangled by
a washrag forced down her throat.
MOORE ANNOUNCES
ABATTOIR PROJECT
“We will at least have an ap
proved place for slaughtering and
handling of meat, an objective to
ward which we have worked for a
number of years,” Sanitarian W.
C. Haas of the Consolidated Board
of Health, said yesterday in ref
erence to the proposed construc
tion of the first approved slaught
ering house for New Hanover
county.
Construction of the $35,000 abat
toir will begin within the next 60
days and will be owned and op
erated by O. C. Moore, at Prince
George creek, Castle Haynes, he
added.
The plant will be the only one
of comparable capacity between
New Hanover county and Smith
field, in the central part of the
state, where the Carolina Packing
company is located, it was ex
plained. It will serve meat-rais
ers throughout southeastern North
Carolina and the creation of an
abattoir or abattoirs in this sec
tion should spur the cattle-raismg
industry in the southeastern dis
trict.
The announcement of the pro
posed slaugh.er house comes as
the climax to several years’ ef
fort to secure an abattoir for the
county, conforming to State Board
of Health standards and adequate
to handle local cattle-killing needs.
Both city and county' governments
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sponsoring the project. ,
Although the contract for con
struction has not yet been com
pletely developed, it is expected
to be awarded to W. A. Simon,
local contractor, Moore said.
Priorities for the critical mate
rials to go into the plant have al
ready been granted by the War
Production Board, the preference
rating being AA-3’.
“We feel that on completion of
Moore’s abattoir, all meat raisers
and slaughterers will either work
through the new plant or provide
the necessary facilities to take
care of their own slaughtering ac
cording to the state-required stan
dards,” he said.
“It is anticipated that at some
future date, the Consolidated Board
of Health will set a deadline for
compliance with the state regula
tions governing the killing and han
dling of hogs and cattle,” he con
tinued.
Moore’s abattoir will be so
equipped that it will handle a
quantity of cattle at once, and
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Two And Half Million
Troops Sent To Europe
NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—t®^-Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, com
mander of the Army services forces, disclosed tonight that during the
first 109 days of the invasion the Allies landed nearly 2,500,000 troops,
Vehicles and 17.000.000 ship tons*-—
of munition?, vehicles and sup
plies.
“Blitz may be a German word,
but we’ve given it an American
accent,’’ Somervell said in a
speech prepared for the first ses
sion of the New York Herald Tri
bune annual forum on current
problems at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Nine other speakers joined with
Somervell in discussing the topic,
“twelve milion veterans—a new
force,” the first subject of the
three-day forum’s general theme,
“builders of the world ahead,”
which will bring to the rostrum 4
leaders in the fields of industry,
government, science and the arts.
Somervell, recently returned
from a service and supply inspec
tion tour in Italy and southern
France, gave the invasion figures
of “these things that the German
generals boasted we could not ac
complish and which today are
proven facts.”
The 17,000,000 ship tons of sup
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I Belgrade’s
Liberation
Seems Near
FIGHTING IN STREETS
Bulgarian Forces Given
Prominent Place In Bat
tle With Nazis
LONDON, Tuesday, Oct.
17.—(^P)—The battle for Bel
grade developed into hand-to
hand fighting in the streets
at the center of the city last
night while combined forces
of Russian, Bulgarian and
Yugoslav troops spread out
along the trans-Balkan rail
way to a distance'of 175 miles
south of the Yugoslav capi
tal.
This stranglehold on t h e main
rail route leading north from
Athens threatened to choke off the
retreat of large German forces
from Greece even before the com- I
bined drive westward had made
more than a dent into Yugoslavia.
The broadcast Russian communi
que announced that the Important
highway and railway junction of
Nis, 125 miles southeast of Bel
grade had been captured by united
action.
Seizure of the. city already had
been announced Saturday by the
Bulgarians, who apparently, from
the language of the Russian com
munique, played the bigges role
in this action.
Moscow said: The Bulgarian
army, operating against the Ger
mans together with troops of the
Yugoslav national liberation army
uri+b Ain* fi*AA«o
in fighting on the territory of Yu
goslavia the town and railway
junction of Nis.”
Moscow’s announcement tonight, [
however, said that this combined
drive had rolled up additional suc
cesses, straddling the railroad as
far down as Vranje, 52 miles south
of Nis. In the process the com- :
bined forces captured Leskovac, 21
miles south of Nis, and punched
13 miles westward, taking Lebane.
The liberation of Belgrade itself
seemed imminent.
The Algiers radio, broadcasting
aii account of the fighting in Yu
goslav capital, said two-thirds of
the city already had been freed
and that the Russians with Marsh,
Tito’s partisans had fought thc/r
way to Belgrade’s principal square.
Tis description said two German
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dupunIaunching
SCHEDULED TODAY
Miss Mary Jennette, ot Faison,
winner of a War Bond selling con
test conducted in Duplin county
during the Fifth War Loan drive,
will christen the TJ.S.S. Duplip as
it slides down the ways of the
North Carolina Shipbuilding com
pany this morning at 11:15 o’clock.
Her matrons of honor will be
Mrs. R. E. L. Dees, of Wallace,
and Mrs. A. B. Vick, of Rose Hill,
runners-up in the competition.
The contest was conducted by the
Duplin War Finance committee
with the woman selling the most
bonds to receive the honor of
christening a North Carolina bult
ship. In winning. Miss Jennette
sold approximately $75,000 worth
an'd total sales during the com
petition were about $350,000. Inter
est was high from the opening day
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Returns To U. S. I
Pictured m wew Tor* City after
tier arrival from abroad is Lt. Col.
Bernice M. Wilbur, Park Ridge, N.
J. Returning home after serving
18 months as director of Army
Nursing in the Mediterranean The
itre, Col. Wilbur says that there
is a dire need for 10,000 nurses in
the Army Nurse Corps. (Int.)
rAYLOR RUES
. ON WEDNESDAY
SOUTHPORT, Oct. 16 — Funeral
services for C. Ed Taylor, 69,
prominent local attorney, who died
it 6:30 a.m. today in the Dosher
Memorial hospital after an illness
if four weeks, will be held Wed
nesday ?t 2 p.m. from Trinity
Methodist church with the pastor,
he Rev. R. S. Harrison, officiating.
Burial will follow in the Old cem
etery. «
He was a member of the North
Carolina Bar association, a Mason,
lolding the thirty-second degrc-e,
phairman of the board of stewards
if Trinity church, and a member
>f the board of trustees of Dosher
lospital.
Mr. Taylor was born September
L5, 1875, near Winnabow in Town
Jreek community, the son of a for
mer sheriff of Brunswick county.
He .served as Register of Deeds
pf the county and was licensed to
practice law in 1908.
A resident of Southport for more
:han 40 years, Mr. Taylor was out
standing in church activities and
vas a teacher of the Men’s Bible
plass at Trinity church for many
fears.
He served Brunswick county as
i representative to the General
Assembly several times. He* atso
served several terms as county at
torney and as solicitor of Record
»r’s court.
He was past-master of the local
Masonic lodge several times.
Surviving are his wido#f, Mrs.
lessie Stevens Taylor; three
laughter, Mrs. R. J. Kiddo of San
Francisco, Mrs. James Harper of
Southport and Mrs. Earl I. Brown
Df Lawton, Okla.; one son, Cpl.
Edward B. Taylor, AAF, Columbia,
5. C.; two sisters, Mrs. D. R.
Johnson of Winnabow and Mrs.
John Gill of Rcsehill; and one
brother, J. Mercer Taylor of Wil
mington.
Active pallbearers will be the
board of stewards of Trinity
phurch.
Honorary pallbearers will be the
local bar association, the board of
trustees of Dosher hospital and the
local Masons.
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Halt million Homeless
In Normandy Province
PARIS, Oct. 16.—UP)—Was -has
left 500,000 persons homeless in
Normandy alone, the French gov
ernment said today in issuing an
appeal to the French people to
lonate blankets and clothing to
aid these victims who are facing
a winter of suffering.
In return for donations, the
ministry of production announced
it would distribute clothing jration
points and certificates exetrtpting
the donors in the event reqyisi
;ion should become necessary.
700 JAP PLANES DOWN IN WEEK;
BIG FORTS HIT FORMOSA AGAIN;
NAZI LINE BENDS IN 2 PL A CES
ENEMY’S AACHEN
TRUST REPULSED
Patton Withdraws Force
From Fort Driant
Near Metz
LONDON, Tuesday, Oct.
17.—(TP)—The taut battleline
stretching 50 miles between
Aachen and the Maas
(Meuse) river iiftHolland bent
toward Germany in two
places early today and the
Berlin radio asserted prepara
tions were being made for aj
new Allied offensive in that
sector. |
A German counterattack was J
hurled back from Aachen itself;
and the American pincers were
snapped clean through the half
mile gap in the steel ring which
had been forged around the city
Doughboys of Lt. Gen. Courtney
H. Hodge’s First U. S. Army came
from the north to capture Wurse
len and linked up with troops from
Crucifix Hill to the south.
British troops pulled up at the
outskirts of Venray, five miles
south of the Maas. The German
radio reported a Nazi withdrawal
in this sector to the railway em
bankment west of the river, sev
eral hundred yards behind the pre
vious enemy positions.
These two Allied advances,
though perhaps not significant in
themselves, coincided with Ger
man reports of a budding offen
sive in the only two sectors where
General Eisenhower’s forces have
any freedom of movement in the
forward battle areas—those held
by the British Second and the Am
erican First armies.
The German reports said “strong
ttoop reinforcemetifs” had been
seen behind Hodges’ Ifne and the
Berlin commentator predicted they
would be employed in the coming
“battle of Geilenkihchen,”
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LEGION CIRCUS
DRAWS THRONG
One of the largest crowds ever
to attend an outdoor amusement
event in this vicinity was on hand
last night for the gala opening
of the Legion Thrill circus at
Legion park. Despite the chilly
temperature, the crowds came
early and stayed late and the op
ening was an auspicious event.
The show will continue twice daily
starting with a matinee today at
3 p. m. and night shows beginning
at 8 p. m. due to length of the
program.
The circus acts are all thrillers
and diversified. Featured are the
Flying Romas troupe of high tra
peze artists; the three Sky Rock
ets, 122 feet in midair, and Dare
devil Bruffy, the man billed as
hanging himself and living to tell
the tale.
Other acts are Captain Doss
trained animals, the great Lip
pincott, magician; Melchoir and
Marie; the Rollo due; Pansy, the
Horse, a comedy act; and the
| Hedrinks, acrobats.
Midway attractions are present
ed by the Combined R. and S,
Amusements and the Marks shows
—Mile Long Pleasure Trail, with
20 rides and 17 big shows.
Tonight will be “Liberation
Night in honor of the Greek pa
triots when the liberation of Ath
ens will be celebrated by the lo
cal Greeks. Children’s day will
be Wednesday from 1 p. m. till
6 p. m, with school children av
mitted free at the main gates on
payment of a nickel Federal tax.
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Held By Germans
Brig. Gen. Arthur W. Vanaman
(above) of Millville, N. J-i is a
prisoner of. Germany, the firs!
American general officer to be
captured by the Germans. He was
first reported missing in action
over Germany while serving as an
observer on an aerial bombing
mission. (AP wirephoto).
PESCHAU BECOMES
DEPUTY RECORDER
The appointment of George L.
Peschau, prominent local attorney
as deputy recorder, at a $50 month
ly reduction in salary from tha1
received by J. H. Ferguson, whc
resigned recently from the positior
to become juvenile judge, was ap
proved by the Board of Countj
Commissioners at its weekly meet
ing yesterday. Peschau will re
ceive $100 monthly, while Fergu
son was appointed for a 10 months
period at $150 monthly.
Commissioner Louis Colemar
made a motion that adjustment foi
1944 taxes be made on the assess
ment on a piece of property or
Third and Grace streets, belonging
to the heirs of Mrs. Hannah L,
Stone, which was found in a re
cent survey to be 6 1-2 feet short
of the footage required in the deed.
The motion was unanimously car
ried and assessments from now or
will be made according to the ac
tual size of the property.
A committee was appointed, tc
consult with the people living or
the road which runs'from the Caro
lina Beach road to the Greenfield
Lake Drive as to a desirable name
for the road. City Engineer J. A.
Loughlin has requested that the
road be named so that it can be
shown on maps he is making. II
is sometimes called Pinecrest road
and this is confusing because there
is another Pinecrest road in the
city.
Cape Fear Country club request
ed the board to make tax adjust
ments in line with the sale by the
club of its more valuable highway
frontage property. Lower valuaj
tion of the club property was
requested. The board agreed to
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PACIFIC FORCE
SPEEDS DRIVE
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Superforts -
Meet Little
Opposition :
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—(A>)— '
An almost complete lack of enemy
air opposition in both the attacks
of B-29 Superfortress bombers
against Formosa was reported to
day by the 20th air force.
A statement by General H. H.
Arnold, commander of the 20th,
said that reconnaissance photo
graphs of the first mission made
two days ago showed that “all air
strips in the target area were in
operable due to bomb damage”
and that at least 50 aircraft had
been destroyed or damaged on the
ground.
“Since our targets were some
what removed, from these air
fields,” the statement added, “it is
presumed that most of the dam
age had been inflicted earlier by
navy carrier-borne attacks, and
that the same navy operations
against the island of Formosa are
responsible for the lack of enemy
air opposition to the B-29 assaults.
The result is that the B-29’s had a
freedom of action for the accom
plishment of their missions that
might not otherwise have been
possible,.”
The second attack on Formosa
had been disclosed by the War
department earlier, which said
the mission had been carried out
without loss of planes.
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Plane Reported Missing
By Tampa Army Air Base
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 16.—The
Third Air force headquarters start
ed a widespread search today for
a missing transport plane carry
ing five officers.
The plane was last heard from
last night while over Cross City,
Fla., during a return flight from
the Athens, Ga., airport. It took
off from Athens at 6:24 p. m. and
while over Cross City at 7:58 ask
ed for weather conditions in the
Tampa area.
The weather at that time was re
ported good, and Drew Field offi
cials expected the plane to land
within an hour. Nothing more was
heard from the ship, however.
Headquartres said the search
would continue until all possibili
ty of a forced landing in the gulf I
or some remote section had been
exhausted.
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ERSATZ HELPS US
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.—UP)—
Sa'botage and use of ersatz have
so undermined efficiency of Ger
man war plants that in two of
the latest Nazi raids on England
37 per cent of the bombs dropped
were duds, Maj. Gen. Levin H.
Campbell, Jr., the Army’s chief
of ordnance, declared today.
flANY FOE BASES HIT
rhird Fleet Carrier Plane*
Sweep Across Luzon
Twice In Two Days
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—
/P)—American carrier planes
dashing anew at the Philip
)ines, have destroyed anoth
er 89 to 104 Japanese planes,
wringing the total of enemy
aircraft shot down or riddled
m the ground to more than
100 in the past week of wide
spread raids in Japan’s home
waters, Admiral Chester W,
Nimitz announced today.
A B-29 BASE IN WESTERN
CHINA, Oct. 16.—(JP)—A strong
force of Superfortresses returned
to Formosa today, adding their
multi-ton loads to the rising cres
cendo of furious army and navy
attacks on the main Japanese base
in the south China sea area.
The primary targets were the
already hard-hit enemy airforce
installations at Okayama and the
air base and shops at Heito, a few
miles to the southeast.
The second raid on Okayama in
98 hours was designed to expunge
any possibly usable installations
remaining after Saturday’s strike.
The targets at Heito were only
slightly less important than at Ok
ayama. Crew members estimated
unofficially that 75 per cent of Ok
ayama’s military objectives were
knocked out in the raid Saturday.
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Oct.
16.—UP)—The carrier planes of the
Third fleet sweeping across Luzon
in two new raids a day apart, shot
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COTTON MARKET
REVIVAL SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10—— Of
ficials of the commodity credit
corporation said today that plans
for putting the United States back
into the world cotton market Snd
for subsidizing sales on surplus
cotton abroad at competitive world
prices will be put into effect
shortly after they afe agreed on
and will not await the end of the
war.
A two-day closed conference
opened at the Agriculture depart
ment today between CCC repre
sentatives and an advisory com
mittee composed of representative*
from the cotton industry. J. B.
Hutson, CCC chief, said the ob
ject was to determine the best
plan for placing U. S. surplus cot
ton into world trade at competi
tive world prices.
As soon as an agreement la
reached on a program, recommen
dations will be made to War Food
Administrator Marvin Jones and
put into effect quickly, it was said.
The surplus property act authoriz
ed CCC to dispose of surplus farm
commodities on export markets at
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•Invasion Prelude?
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:ate naval task force and Super
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md the Ryuku islands in the past
ew days. Open arrows indicate
possible Invasion of Philippine i»
ands which may follow.
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Dewey Continues F.D.R. Attack
While Truman Assaults G.O.P.
By The Associated Press
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, carry
ing his republican presidential
campaign into Senator Harry S.
Truman’s home state, declared Jast
night that the Roosevelt adminis
tration is “weary and worn out”
and incapable of bringing ‘‘order
out of its own chaos.”
Speaking in St. Louis in a swing
through the midwest, Dewey as
serted the administration had
“lived in conflict” and that before
this nation can become ‘‘a steady
ing influence for freedom and
peace we must set our own house
in order.
“That can never be done by a
weary and worn out admimstra
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tion,” he said in an address pre
pared for deUvery. “It can and
must be done by a fresh and v!g
orous administration which will re
store honesty and competence to
our government.”
Truman, the democratic vice
presidential candidate, charged
meanwhile at Los Angeles that
republicans had "fought tooth and
nail” against administration pre
paration for war. He told a new
conference Dewey either was un
familiar with the facts or “cover
ing them up” when he accused the
administration of being unpre
pared.
Senator Green (D-RI) in Wasn
ington described Dewey as a
“chameleon candidate. He said the
governor takes varying positions
on foreign policy, labor and new
deal legislation as nis campaign
travels carry him into areas where
different opinions are popular.
Truman’s opponent, Gov. John
W. Bricker of Ohio who also ir
campaigning in California, summed
up at Santa Barbara his views of
his two-week western tour with a
prediction that California, Wash
ington and Oregon will vote repub
lican in the November election.
He also put in the repu'/.can
column Minnesota, the Dakotas,
Montana all of the Middle West,
New York. New England and Penn
sylvania and said signs “are in
{
creasingly encouraging” in s u c n
border states as Maryland and
Kentucky. ,
Other campaign notes:
Presidential Secretary Stephen
Early reported nothing further
available on President Roosevelt ?
own plans for campaign speeches
beyond his foreign policy address
Saturday in New York. There have
been reports that he might speak
in Philadelphia, Chicago and Cleve
land before the election.
Rep. Clare Booth Luce (R-Conn)
expressed belief in Pittsburg that
the women’s vote will decide the
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State Department Asks
Peace Proposals Study
WASHINGTON Oct. 16.—(.T)—The State Department today called
on the public for “wide, intelligent and maturing” consideration of
the Dumbarton Oaks peace agency proposals so that the government
can move forward successfully
in the creation of a world security
organization.
The call was issued by Under
secretary of State Edward R. Stet
tinius, Jr., at a meeting of repre
sentatives of about l'OO civic, pro
fessional and social organizations.
Except for the opening and clos
ing remarks of Stettinius and a
brief statement by President Er
nest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth
college, the meeting was off the
record.
For the most part, however, it
was understood to consist of back
ground explanations of the world
security plan worked out at Dum
barton Oaks conference.
Stettinius said that it is impos
sible to over emphasize that the
Dumbarton Oaks proposals for
world organization “are tentative
and as yet incomplete.” j
“Much work remains to be done i
before the international organiza- 1
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