Word: cessions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cession of this territory would greatly improve Russia's strategic position by making the Black Sea even more of a Soviet lake. Of its 2,000-odd miles of coast line, the U.S.S.R. now has about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Wanted: Epirus. The overwhelming majority of Greeks did not want to lose Macedonia. The dominant Communist element in EAM lost popularity when it came out in favor of a "little Greece" and the cession of Macedonia to a Balkan federation. Last week EAM echoed the Belgrade and Moscow press: it publicly attacked the Voulgaris Government for promoting a "regime of terror...
...Rectification of Turkey's Balkan frontier. Apparently this meant the cession to Bulgaria of the Turkish Aegean port of Alexandroupolis (Dedeagach...
...Rectification of Turkey's Asia Minor frontier. This meant the cession of the Kars region (with the town of Ardahan) to Russia. The Kars area (see map), was wrested from Turkey by the Tsars in the 19th Century, given back by the Bolsheviks in 1921, when Allied forces were in control of Kars...
...Cession of the Saar and other Rhineland industrial areas to France; cession of East Prussia to Poland...