Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thirteen non-Communist nations: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Spain. Five Communist states: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia. * Urged by John Foster Dulles in 1950, while Republican adviser to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, on the ground that "the U.N. will best serve the cause of peace if its Assembly is representative of what the world actually is, and not merely representative of the parts that we like...
...would break nine years of deadlock and increase U.N. membership from 60 to 77. Russia promised not to veto the West's list: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal and Spain. In return, the U.S. would not veto the Russian candidates: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. The U.S. also, agreed to abstain on Outer Mongolia, but counted on this barren Soviet outpost's not getting enough votes...
SALES TO RUSSIA will be made by General Motors under a new policy, though it will now make no drive to encourage Red business. (Only a month ago G.M. turned down an order from Bulgaria for 500 Chevrolet sedans, even though it was approved by the U.S. Commerce Department.) G.M. itself put a ban on sales behind the Iron Curtain during the Korean war after it was criticized in Congress for a deal to sell truck and auto parts to Poland...
Khrushchev's statement did not quite jibe with the announcement, .made the same week in satellite Czechoslovakia, that 34,000 men will shortly be dropped from the Czech Red army. But Communist delegations from Czechoslovakia. Albania, Bulgaria. Hungary. East Germany, Mongolia, Korea, Poland, listening intently to Khrushchev's words, found a message there. The applause, according to Tass, was "tempestuous and prolonged...
After 24 hours' silence, Sofia Radio charged that the plane had edged onto Bulgarian territory and said that it was shot down by trigger-happy Bulgarian antiaircraft gunners. The Communist government of Bulgaria expressed its "deep regret." When a three-man Israeli investigation commission arrived at the crash site, the Bulgars had removed most of the wreckage...