Word: byelorussia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than fruitful week for the U.N. At one point during the Political Committee's debate, as a Byelorussian delegate kept sledgehammering away on a procedural point, Fayez El-Khouri of Syria sighed: "We cannot all withstand the pressure of these meetings. If the representative of Byelorussia has a strong nervous and physical system, I confess that for my part I sometimes need rest, moral and spiritual rest...
...pointed out that America had exported over five million tons of grain last year, which was news to them all. None of them had heard of UNRRA aid in the Ukraine and Byelorussia. The old man countered the reference to UNRRA aid with: "Why are you also so kind to the Germans?" I replied: "The Russians are being kind to the Germans in Germany too." The old man answered: "That is true. We have heard it from our sons in the occupation Army. But why are you against our getting even ten billion in reparations? We need it because...
...Military Governor General Mark Clark; Britain's Sir William Strang and Sir Samuel Hood (who, as No. i civilian official in the British zone, is Murphy's opposite number); France's sleek, conciliatory Maurice Couve de Murville; Russia's deadpan, English-speaking Fedor Gusev, and Byelorussia's Kuzma Kiselev...
...quarters had come out of U.S. pockets. More than half of this money had been spent (where it was needed most) in nations firmly within the Russian orbit. Yugoslavia received $429 million worth of food, fuel, commodities, industrial supplies and other necessary aid, Czechoslovakia $270 million, Poland $474 million, Byelorussia and the Ukraine $250 million, and Albania $28 million...
...recently reached Berlin from various parts of the U.S.S.R. unanimously agree that the average German in the Soviet zone is better fed, better dressed, and better housed than the average Russian in Moscow, Sverdlovsk or Leningrad. He is incomparably better off than the average citizen of devastated Ukraine and Byelorussia...