Word: carinthia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relinquish, as well as the greater share of Austria's oil-refining capacity and oil-exploration areas, of which they were to have received only some 60% under the treaty document." So far, Russia's only "concession" has been to drop its support of claims to Carinthia made by Tito's rebellious Yugoslavia...
...note was the fourth in a high-pitched controversy about Yugoslavia's territorial demands on Austrian Carinthia, which Russia first backed, then repudiated (TIME, June 27). Europe's rumor factories at once produced pertinent whispers: a Soviet airlift across Yugoslavia was reinforcing isolated little Albania"; Marshal Ivan S. Konev was in Bulgaria warming up a Cominform army...
...bustards (and George Earle) have been practically forgotten in Pennsylvania. Last week, however, the Austrian Government had bustards on its mind. The Socialists had passed a law nationalizing hunting in the province of Carinthia. Large estates were to be subdivided into small parcels for the season, and one huntsman assigned to each by the authorities. Everyone, said the Socialists, deserved a chance in these hard times to shoot himself a bustard or a buck...
Austrian Conservatives were madder than Pennsylvania Republicans. Hunters complained that, under the new measure, there would soon be no wildlife left in Carinthia. That, in turn, would badly affect Austria's future tourist business. The Communists, on the other hand, thought nationalization of hunting was a fine idea...
...would speed agreement seemed to be right. The Foreign Ministers ticked off, with minor disagreements, 15 minor articles of the proposed Austrian peace treaty. Then the sessions bogged down again. On every major question, Russia and the U.S. were at odds. Russia asked that a slice of Austria (southern Carinthia) and $150 million in reparations from Austria be given to Yugoslavia. The Western powers refused. Russia wanted "German assets" in Austria (available for seizure as German reparations) defined to include all property transferred by Austrians to Germans during the Anschluss. The Western powers wanted to except assets transferred under Nazi...