Word: border
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resolved: that the Security Council under Article 34 of the Charter establish, a commission to ascertain the facts relating to the alleged border "violations along the frontier between Greece on the one hand and Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia on the other...
Just a year ago a Kremlin-coached team of politicians in Azerbaijan, which adjoins the Soviet border, had proclaimed Azerbaijan "independence." The Teheran Government's fortunes reached a low point last May when it virtually disowned its Washington Ambassador, bright-eyed little Hussein Ala, for pounding the anti-Russian alarm too loudly in the Security Council. Security Council disapproval forced the Red Army to leave all Persia?but skeptics pointed out that Red influence, exerted through the Communist-led Tudeh Party, was still strong in Teheran; they doubted if Premier Ahmad Gavam's Government was free enough to re-establish...
Grey little Jafar Pishevari, the Azerbaijan leader, waited for word of support from Moscow. It never came. Pishevari capitulated, and then fled across the Soviet border with a few followers. Thousands of Azerbaijani lined the roads and hurrahed Gavam's troops with a cheer never raised before on land or sea: "Long live the Security Council !" The Tabriz radio now said: "Being desirous of . . . proving to the world that we want peace . . . we have decided to help the Government in its task. . . . Long live the sovereignty and independence of Persia...
Greece's Life Blood. U.N.'s Persian victory gave hope that it might be able to stop the splitting of another country, Greece. Russian satellite hands on Greece's northern border effectively blocked control by Athens of a large and important part of the country. Choleric Premier Constantin Tsaldaris, a rightist who refused to take moderates into his Government, flew to New York, shouted at the U.N. Security Council: "This situation, whereby a country which has shed so much of its blood for the common struggle [in World War II] is still being drained of its life blood, cannot continue...
From both sides of the border, top-ranking bridge players arrived in Toronto last week for the Toronto Whist Club's annual championship tournament. To run the show, the Whist Club imported Al Sobel of New York, the American Contract Bridge League's national tournament director. At headquarters in the Royal York Hotel, Director Sobel accepted 305 entrants. But he balked on the 306th. No. 306 was Leon Beard, 43, a Trinidad civil servant studying surveying at the University of Toronto. Reason for rejection: Leon Beard is a Negro...