Word: byelorussia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albania Bulgaria Byelorussia Czechoslovakia
...negotiator, the usually adroit Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov pared down his old Dumbarton Oaks request for U.N. membership for all 16 Soviet republics. "[Russia] would be satisfied," said he, "with the admission of three, or at least two." Good-naturedly, the Westerners agreed to help add two Red birds, Byelorussia and the Ukraine, to the nest. On the very evening that the eagles had their frank talk about the small birds, even before the blueprint for the U.N. had been agreed upon, disillusion began...
Died. Mikhail Markovich Borodin (real name: Mikhail Gruzenberg), 68, top international Communist agent during the '20s; of unannounced causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. Born in Byelorussia, he joined the Bolshevist underground at 19, in 1906 fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S. Back in Russia after the 1917 revolution. Borodin soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary...
...election of Greece, ardently sponsored by the U.S., to a seat on the Security Council originally reserved for a Russian satellite. This was a major defeat for Moscow, whose candidate Byelorussia at first seemed certain of election...
Deadlock. By the time balloting came, the U.S. was still trying hectically to piece together what Moscow likes to call the "Americans' automatic majority." But it could not. On the first ballot, Greece got 30 votes, considerably short of the required two-thirds majority, to Byelorussia's 26. Seven ballots later, Byelorussia was ahead, 32 to 27, and the deadlock remained. "In these circumstances," intoned the acting Assembly President, Britain's Sir Gladwyn Jebb, "we should postpone the election in order to give us all time for reflection...