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...apparently launched his long-planned drive to expand federal Yugoslavia at the expense of Greek Macedonia. From Athens the New York Times's European Chief Cyrus Sulzberger reported: "There is a pattern behind these events linked to the politically homogeneous Governments of Greece's three northern neighbors [Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania], who are all ideologically tied to the Soviet Union." Was Russia, through her Balkan satellites, resuming a historic push toward a warm-water port on the Aegean...
Russian interference in Macedonia dates from Tsarist times. After the Russo-Turkish war (1877-78), the Treaty of San Stefano, imposed by the victorious Russians, gave Macedonia to Bulgaria, practically converted the Balkans into a Russian-dominated great Bulgaria, with an Aegean coast line. Later, at the Congress of Berlin, Britain and Austria forced the Tsar to disgorge most of his Balkan booty. As a sop, they let him keep strategic Kars in Asia Minor (see below...
Divorced. Commander George Howard Earle 3rd, 54, wealthy Philadelphia Main Liner, onetime New Dealing Governor of Pennsylvania and U.S. Minister to Austria and Bulgaria; by Huberta Potter Earle, 48, handsome, Kentucky-born socialite; after 29 years of marriage (four sons); in Norristown...
...response to hastily distributed invitations from the Soviet Academy, upwards of 150 men of science gathered in Moscow last week. They came from Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, England, France, Finland, Hungary. India, Iran, the Mongolian Republic, Rumania, Sweden, the United States and Yugoslavia. Their names ranged from illustrious to illustriously obscure...
...British military missions were finally in Vienna, paving the way for joint occupation. Russian troops were "thinning out" from the British occupation zone in Austria. The U.S. Embassy in Prague opened. In Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania, Russian military authorities still made unilateral decisions, but Washington thought it saw signs that this phase, provided for in armistice terms, would end soon...