Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the council received an interim report from the subsidiary group of the Balkan investigating commission on recent developments along Greece's northern border. The report was restricted to a summary of testimony taken in its on-the-spot investigation of Greek charges that an international brigade had entered Greece from Albania...
...getting worse and John Taber does not seem to have any ideas for coping with it. Last week the Greek Government arrested 4,000 Communists on charges of plotting to take over the country (see FOREIGN NEWS). From Communist-run Albania, a new guerrilla drive over the Greek border began. Suppose either internal or external Communist pressure, or both, succeeded in overthrowing the Greek state. Does John Taber have any estimate of what it would cost to dislodge a Communist government from Athens? Or any estimate of how much a Communist coup in Greece would increase the cost...
...sabotage and seizure of Government posts. His predawn raids, said Zervas, had been in the nick of time. The plot had been timed to support Russia at the United Nations; there Russia's Andrei Gromyko last week opposed the U.S. plan to set up a permanent border commission to watch Greece's northern frontiers...
...Greek Communist, ended any lingering doubts about Communist intentions. From his hiding place he sent a message to the Communist paper Rizospastis, calling for the "creation in free democratic areas of Greece of a free democratic government." This week the Greek Government announced that forces had crossed the border from Albania to join guerrillas fighting the Greek Army in northern Greece. Moreover, the Government claimed, a leftist international brigade including men recruited from all over Europe was gathering in Albania. While the U.S. Congress delayed in voting the aid to Greece which President Truman had called for three months...
...Antonians, recently awakened to the potentialities of U.S.-Mexican trade, have begun to share Tano Lucchese's enthusiasm. Each year, some 30,000 Mexicans come to San Antonio from across the border, some 130 miles away. Even more important than the millions they spend is San Antonio's position as the gateway to Mexico. Last year, the Laredo customs district handled $333,300,000 worth of U.S. exports most of which passed through San Antonio. San Antonians expect this to increase when the Pan American highway is finished. And they hope to establish a foreign-trade zone, similar...