Word: bulgaria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Petko Stainov, Bulgaria, demoted...
...imperialism. (If anything, Britain and the U.S. tried to stall the pending pact, lest it irritate Italy, which is still at odds with Tito over Trieste.) The agreement will mobilize a combined army of 800,000 tough fighters to repel any attack from or through the Communist countries of Bulgaria and Albania.* It will also set up a consultative assembly, representing the three Parliaments, to discuss mutual problems (Yugoslavia alone of the three does not belong to NATO...
...observed his fifth anniversary in a job in which his predecessor went mad.* His power in matters of faith, order and polity is far more limited than that of the Pope; yet he is looked upon as "Elder Brother" by the churches of Alexandria, Antioch, Jerusalem, Russia,. Cyprus, Greece, Bulgaria, ATHENAGORAS I On a wooden throne, a nylon ruler...
...Malenkov regard North Korea, as well as Manchuria, as potential abrasives. The State Department's current reading is that many more interests unite the Communist rulers of the two big nations than divide them, and that China is not a satellite of the Soviet Union (like Bulgaria, Rumania, etc.) but a partner-a decidedly junior partner...
...Ottoman Empire, were ceded to Russia after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877, returned to Turkey after World War I, but have been the subject of ceaseless Soviet agitation ever since. The Montreux Convention is an international agreement (signed by Turkey, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria. Greece, Japan, Rumania and Yugoslavia) which regulates the Dardanelles and the Bosporus, the straits linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. Under this agreement. Turkey may fortify the straits and regulate the passage of warships, but must allow all merchant ships to pass. In World War II, the Soviet Union charged that neutral...