Word: balkans
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...call him back. Until the very last he had always come back, and to the last futile hour he had seemed to expect that they would yield. Now he told the world the "truth" (according to the U.S.S.R.): Russia, in objecting to the participation of France and China in Balkan treaty discussions, had merely followed the letter of the rules made by the heads of state at Potsdam. The foreign ministers had no right to alter the Potsdam decision-that only the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain, which had signed the Balkan armistice terms, should draft the Balkan treaties...
...Russia was claiming colonies in Africa, making friends among the Arabs, gripping eastern Eu rope, regaining its economic position in Manchuria, actively concerning itself with the control of Japan. The U.S., which five years ago seemed half-indifferent, was now insistently expressing its views on the internal politics of Balkan countries, expanding its influence in the Middle East, preparing to keep great island bases oppo site Russia's back door...
Foreign Commissar Molotov was tougher than ever before, and more tightly bound by his instructions. U.S. Secretary of State Byrnes offered him a compromise (virtually excluding France from Balkan discussions) which was generous to the point of humiliation. Molotov cabled home for instructions, got an answer: "Stick to your brief...
...yarn was an allegory of conflicting Big Power attitudes in Eastern Europe. The Anglo-Americans contended that in the Russian-dominated countries one kind of dictatorship had replaced another. The Russians answered that if their Balkan regimes fell, the men who had welcomed the Nazis would creep back into power, just as "Duce" had reappeared on Trieste's rock...
Even among Balkan politicians, who are much sought after by direct-actionists, Dr. Georgi Dimitroff, 43-year-old ex-Secretary General of the Bulgarian Agrarian Party, seems to bear a charmed life. Four years ago he escaped German arrest by leaving his country in a load of oranges shipped out by British diplomats. Four months ago he escaped Russian arrest, this time by falling inside the opened door of the U.S. political representative in Sofia, Maynard B. Barnes (TIME, June 11). Last week, still in the reassuring company of Mr. Barnes, Dimitroff and his wife emplaned from the capital, with...