Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National governments and international organization must guarantee the rights of ethnic, religious and cultural minorities to economic livelihood . . . equal opportunity for educational and cultural development . . . political equality...
Black Lambs. Born out of centuries of wars, Yugoslavia was christened as a nation in 1929 after President Woodrow Wilson had been its godfather at the 1919 Peace Conference's ethnic partition of Europe. The Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, who breed great fighters, lawyers and poets, dreamed of unifying and industrializing their new nation, but their individual ambitions thwarted unity...
...striving for education, the productivity, and the enduring happiness of the common man." A contrast of our respective labor-capital relations gave top credit to Soviet economic democracy and the Vice-President further stated that "Russia has probably gone farther than any other nation in the world in practising ethnic or racial democracy." In equality between sexes, a democracy much neglected by American thought, Russia has overwhelmingly outdone the civilized world...
Though Rumania's snarls were angrier, Hungary seemed more ready to bite. Thousands of troops were manning the Rumanian frontier. In Transylvania, Hungary was deliberately conscripting men of Rumanian ancestry to reduce Rumania's ethnic claim to the territory. In Ankara, it was reported that Hungary's Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Franz Szombathelyi, had recently been in Sofia trying to persuade Bulgaria to sign a joint ultimatum against Rumania...