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Ethridge and his colleagues on the U.N. Balkan Investigating Commission were instructed to check on charges and countercharges of frontier violations, provocations, guerrilla fighting and general hell-raising along Greece's frontier with her northern Communist neighbors (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania). The Greek Left, as well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish...
Resolved: that the Security Council under Article 34 of the Charter establish, a commission to ascertain the facts relating to the alleged border "violations along the frontier between Greece on the one hand and Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia on the other...
...Council agreed that all of Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia should be open territory for the investigation. This was a compromise between Russia's desire to include all of Greece but only the borders of the other three, and Britain's desire to include all of the three Soviet satellite lands but only the borders of Greece. The investigators were directed to proceed to the trouble zone by Jan. 15. Each of the Security Council's eleven members will be represented...
Died. Cimon P. Diamantopoulos, 59, Greek Ambassador to the U.S. (since 1940), onetime Minister to Albania (!933-35) and Bulgaria (1935-40); of a heart attack, while conferring with visiting Greek Premier Constantin Tsaldaris; in Manhattan...
...Assembly returned to the Security-Council for review membership applications of five other nations: Outer Mongolia, Albania, Portugal, Trans-Jordan and Eire...