Word: bornholm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russian policy looked like a crazy quilt of contradiction; but it was not. Danes rejoiced as the Red Army began to leave Bornholm Island last week. (Some of the Russian soldiers carried grandfather clocks on their backs.) Russia was suspected of stirring up another hornets' nest for Iran by inciting the Kurds to revolt, but promised to leave Iran within six weeks "if nothing unforeseen happens." The Supreme Soviet ordered six more classes of the Red Army to be demobilized by September...
...that "fascist" armies were being maintained in the U.S. and British zones of Germany. The Greek elections wavered toward postponement because of a leftist boycott; chancelleries puzzled what to do next with Rightist Dictators Franco and Perón. The Danes politely asked Russia to loosen her grip on Bornholm island; the Iranians despairingly saw her extend her grip on Azerbaijan; the Turks were once again the object of a Moscow war of nerves...
...Army's General Karatkov was asked in Copenhagen when Soviet troops were going to leave Denmark's Bornholm Island. He made the most conciliatory answer possible: their occupation would be "exactly as long as Marshal Stalin, President Truman and Prime Minister Churchill decide...
...Bornholm Island some 75,000 more gave...