Word: finland
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German assets abroad were also divided and, more important, placed under rigid control. Russia took the assets in eastern satellite countries (Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Finland); the Western Allies got the much greater share in the rest of the world...
...parallel problem for the commission would be the future of other intergovernmental agreements and bodies such as the International Labor Organization. The British wanted to incorporate the I.L.O. into the new organization. There was strong opposition from Russia, which was expelled from the I.L.O. in 1940 after she attacked Finland; less opposition from the U.S. and others. Large sections of organized labor opposed the I.L.O. because of its tripartite representation (labor, management, government...
...Other Strode books: Timeless Mexico, The Story of Bermuda, Finland Forever...
Cascade to Tashkent. War or no war, the July 9 eclipse was one of the best observed in history. The moon's shadow, falling on the earth at 6:14 a.m. at Cascade, Idaho, raced at 47 miles a minute across Montana, Canada, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, disappearing after just two hours and 27 minutes at Tashkent, in Turkestan (see diagram). The total eclipse followed a very narrow path (maximum width: 58 miles, in Greenland), but it covered a long stretch of land area. One of the most elaborately equipped expeditions (a Harvard-led group at Bredenbury...
Gifts & Signatures. Lobengula was the last South African native king to fight for his independence. He ruled a territory as large as Finland, bounded by the Zambezi and the Limpopo Rivers. But even in this large and lonely expanse of grassland he could feel the presence of Portuguese, Germans, British and Boers. These white people sent emissaries to his court bearing gifts of champagne, brandy and sovereigns. Afterwards, they always asked Lobengula if he would kindly sign a piece of paper called a "concession." which permitted them to dig in the ground like children, and to open little stores. Lobengula...