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Next night, Byrnes went on the air with a defense of the agreements. He argued that the U.S. would use its veto power against peace terms that ignored small-nation interests. As for the Balkan nations, he said, "It is for us to say whether the terms have been complied with...
Black George's grandson, Peter, a quiet, aging (60) exile in Switzerland, was summoned to the throne in 1903. He led Serbia through the two Balkan wars and World...
Somewhere in the Caucasus Mountains, said a report current in Europe, a secret conference recently took place. In the chair was Generalissimo Joseph Stalin. Present were Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, Red Army occupation chief in Hungary, and a group of Soviet Ambassadors and Balkan experts. The object of the meeting was to reshape Soviet policy for the Balkans and eastern Europe. Reported decisions: i) the Red Army will be withdrawn by the end of next year and civilian control will be substituted; 2) Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria must be bound to the Soviet economy by stringent economic agreements; 3) nervous opposition...
Married. Miriam Hopkins, 40, stage & screen (Becky Sharp) star; and Ray mond B. Brock, 32 wartime Balkan correspondent of the New York Times; she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Alexandria, Va. Her third husband was Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director (Mayerling, Tovarich...
Parable in Poznan. Important as they were to Russia and to Europe, the Balkan treaties in themselves were not enough to drive the Big Powers so far toward fission. One evident reality was that Molotov did not want to defend Russia's oppressive Balkan regimes before too big an audience; his objecting to French and Chinese participation was his way of avoiding that unpleasant task...