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Show Russ General Falls Latest of the prominent generals to be killed in highly mobile World War II, requiring the presence of ft&$ commanders close t i v to the front lines to ?A keep up with the battle, was 37-year- 1 t old Russian Ivan y '1 Cherniakhovsky, r s S. who fell while di- s recting the drive on J East Prussia. I' Youngest Russian "fv,.(i.Y4siS general and army General group commander, cherniakhovsky Cherniakhovsky, a tank expert, was considered one of the Soviet's outstanding military strategists. Diplomacy Only ruffle in the Allied conference confer-ence in the Crimean and Mediter- j ranean regions was Gen. Charles de Gaulle's refusal to accept President Roosevelt's invitation for a meeting in Algiers, indicating Frencn pique at FDR's inability to visit Paris and at reports that it was principally because be-cause of the U. S. that France was excluded from the Big Three talks. Despite the diplomatic unpleasan-tries, unpleasan-tries, however, the French were busy exchanging views with.U. S., British and Russian officials on the Yalta decisions, and were also said I to be preparing to participate in the United Nations pending postwar security se-curity conference at San Francisco in April. Considered a key to the stability of western Europe, once-humbled France, rising proudly under De ' Gaulle's aggressive leadership, was said to be angling for extensive occupational oc-cupational rights in postwar Germany, Ger-many, including Austria. PARALYSIS FUND Collecting S5.452.S93 during its fiscal fis-cal year ending May 31. 1944. the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis authorized grants and appropriations ap-propriations totaling SI. 828. 89 for the period for research, education and training of physical therapists, Basil O'Connor, president, said. During the year, the foundation also established a special fund of $2,000,000 for epidemics and other ', emergencies, and $730,860 was used ' during the country's second worst outbrcr.k of polio last summer. |