Word: balkans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Benes expounded a threefold doctrine: 1) freed Europeans will not tolerate reactionary leaders re-entrenching themselves through expediency; 2 ) the solution of the Balkan and Eastern European problems can be worked out through a cooperative federation of liberal governments; 3) the future of this federation depends on the friendship and help of Russia, as well as of the U.S. and Britain...
...sashes, rifles across their backs. In the villages a restive folk hanged Benito Mussolini in effigy. Schoolboys ran off to the hills to join the guerrillas. Fearful Italian troops clapped hundreds in jail, closed the schools, imposed curfews on the villages. Like the rest of subjugated Europe, the smallest Balkan nation was girding for liberation...
...years. In a photograph published recently in a German magazine, he looked fit and happier than the wounded soldiers with whom he was shaking hands (see cut). Of more significance was Salter's report on Hitler's plans and promises. According to this account, he gave the Balkan leaders these assurances...
...Balkan woods held their first anemones. Peasants spanned their plows, knowing that guns sow no seeds but that the men of war must eat. In Czechoslovakia eleven underground workers were executed. In Yugoslavia there were reports of 30,000 war-orphaned children roaming, singly and in packs, over the countryside, starving, dying, turning into fierce hooligans...
...complicated boundary questions in the Danubian and Balkan areas cannot be discussed in this article. It may be added that in urging that the principle of "The boundaries of 1933 as far as possible" be recognized at or prior to the armistice period, one does not necessarily preclude the possibility of later boundary modifications which conditions may make it desirable for the United Nations or for a new international body to agree upon...