Word: russian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months' probation period, during which the Allied military missions in Budapest, Bucharest and Sofia were to watch, "in concert," the activities of the defeated nations. Last week, the probation period was up. The U.S. and Britain took the occasion to tell the world how the three Russian satellites respected their solemn obligations...
Reserved Rights. Every time the U.S. protested against treaty violations, said the State Department, the satellites pointed out that protests must be made "in concert" with the West's Russian allies. The Russians flatly refused to act in concert-or to act at all except in support of the local Reds. Huffed the State Department: "The U.S. Government reserves all its rights under the treaties...
What were those "rights"? The U.S. can request the setting up of an arbitration commission to be composed of Western and Russian representatives plus one neutral. If agreement on the choice of this neutral cannot be reached, the U.S. may ask U.N. to appoint one. If the commission, once set up, still fails to reach agreement, the U.S. can, of course, always go to U.N.'s Security Council-and there run up against the Russian veto. This was the peace to which 18 months ago Jeeves had so grandly guided the nations...
Damn the Communists. Kirkenes' Finnish neighbors over the line were carefully moved back behind a Soviet "security belt." Some six divisions of the Red army moved up to protect the new border. Norwegians were forbidden to go to Petsamo (which the Russians named Pechenga), the Finnish nickel center across the Pasvik River. Meanwhile, Hoelvold established himself as local Red leader. He built up an eight-man Communist bloc in Kirkenes' 28-man town council. He began to publish a Mimeographed party newspaper. With his Russian friends beaming from the other side of the Pasvik, he blasted Norway...
Summer snows rest eternally on the high, craggy peaks of the Russian Caucasus mountains where the loftiest pinnacle in Europe, Mt. Elbrus, reaches 18,481 feet into the sky. Yet the deep green Caucasus valleys are lush with camphor trees, tangerines, bananas and even tropical palms. There, Caucasian tradition has it, the Garden of Eden was located, and there, as in Author James Hilton's mythical Tibetan valley of Shangri-La, native tribesmen live an incredibly long time. Ages well over 100 are commonplace in the Caucasus, a land of mixed nationalities which include gypsies from India, Turks, pure...