Word: overlordship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Tito and the five-man Yugoslav delegation, Brezhnev irritated the Yugoslavs by praising at length the attitude of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. While welcoming any easing of East-West tensions, the Yugoslavs are apprehensive that Brandt's Ostpolitik might be interpreted as an acceptance of Soviet overlordship in Eastern Europe-an idea the Yugoslavs strongly reject...
...revolutionary movements of their homelands. By and large, political leaders of all parties did their best to cool this interventionist ardor. As early as 1821, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams was forced to counter a popular enthusiasm for Greece's struggle against Turkish overlordship. While the U.S. would always view sympathetically the struggles of foreign peoples against tyranny, he said, "she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy...