Word: byelorussians
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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...
...spotlights' glare, the 18 uniformed prisoners (including three generals) looked jaundiced and afraid. They had reason to be. The prosecution charged them with responsibility for destroying 209 Byelorussian towns, 10,000 collective farms, 1,150 hospitals, and for killing unnumbered thousands of Soviet citizens...
...Gawd Bless You All!" The fight on Monday, April 30, over the admission of authoritarian Argentina was another real crisis. Molotov saw his chance and took it; the U.S., having made the Latin countries support the earlier admission of Russia's Ukrainian and Byelorussian republics, was committed to bring Argentina in, too. Although the Russians were roundly beaten on the vote, they looked as happy as a tiger that had swallowed a young parrot. They had a moral issue that they could use forever after...