Word: balkans
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...negotiations had broken down. India was in the throes of mass murder and fleeing populations. Persia, stiffened by promises of U.S. support, was resisting Russian demands. Greece (and the U.S. support of Greece) was confronted by the danger of a rival Greek Communist state, supported by Russia through her Balkan stooges. Almost anything might happen in Italy...
...showdown?" might soon have an answer. Russia's Gromyko had vetoed the mild U.S. resolution to set up a two-year border watch there. He threatened now to veto every other scheme the Council could invent to fasten the blame where it belonged-on Greece's Sovietsupported Balkan neighbors. What, then, could...
...explosive Balkan problem was scheduled for consideration by the United National Assembly September 16, when the U.S. yesterday referred it to Secretary-General Trygve Lie after a rebuff by Russia...
...real test of this nation's intent to play a leading role on the world stage is still to come. Britain's request to discuss certain aspects of the recent loan, the admitted inability of the Security Council to resolve the Balkan squabbles, the Russian penchant for hiding behind her veto--all are ideal ammunition for those who desire to belittle the benefits of international cooperation. Some Congressmen and editorialists are already saying they--"knew all along" that the United States should stay out of other peoples business...
...went through their paces like actors in a tediously familiar tragedy of manners. They voted down Gromyko, paragraph by paragraph, with only the pale hand of Poland's Oscar Lange raised with Gromyko's. Later Colombia suggested a compromise which called for the creation of a new, slightly modified Balkan Commission. Gromyko said the Colombia proposal was simply the old U.S. resolution with a "wash, a haircut, powder and lipstick...