Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four meeting thus closed were well symbolized by Jimmy Byrnes's circular doodles. For four weeks, the Ministers had moved, in vicious and constricting circles, around the central issue of peace. They had achieved synthetic agreement on their approach to peripheral problems, like Italian reparations arid the Balkan satellite peace treaties. But the central question was what kind of Europe the victors should raise from the ruins; in the "settlements" of Paris II, Russia's and the West's conflicting answers had been clarified, but not reconciled. In a report to the U.S. people this week, Secretary...
...these plants, and many another shoe factory, may soon face competition from the nationalized plant at Zlin. Though many of Zlin's shoes are now going to Russia in exchange for raw materials, Bata is also exporting to Sweden and Balkan countries. And buyers from the U.S., who once bought 40% of Bata's shoes, have already descended on Zlin. But Bata has no shoes for the U.S. as yet, and does not know when it will have. When it does, Bata may find it much harder to undersell U.S. shoemakers. Since 1939, the retail price of Bata...
...second time, the Government regretfully refused (and Dimitroff was promptly summoned to Moscow). On other issues, Sofia has been more obedient; it has dropped its old territorial claims against Comrade Tito's Yugoslavia (for Mother Russia wants a united satellite family), has instead joined the general Balkan campaign for hunks of Greek territory...
...Rumania, Premier Peter Groza postponed elections until fall (by then he hopes to have liquidated the opposition). Despite vigorous U.S. protest, Reuben H. Markham, the Christian Science Monitor's veteran Balkan correspondent, was expelled last week for "misrepresenting the situation in Rumania and spreading provocative rumors prejudicial to the cause of unity among the great powers." Markham reluctantly crossed into Greece, retaliated by bitterly telling of concentration camps, political murders, meetings broken up by Red Army troops and Communists. Said he: "The worst that any tyrant ever did in the way of violence . . . is now being matched...
Died. James Henry ("Jimmy") Hare. 89, veteran news photographer of the flash-powder era who took the first aerial picture of Manhattan, made closeups of five wars (Spanish-American, Russo-Japanese, Balkan, Haiti-Dominican Republic, World War I); in Teaneck...