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...Kremlin's ambitions could be well defined, said Lippmann, because they were historically imperialist Russian ambitions: a pan-Slav affiliation extending to the Oder River, the Alps, the Adriatic and the Aegean. It was the Red Army, not Marxist ideology, Lippmann argued, which had placed Russia in control of virtually all the territory she coveted...
...correct and sensible solution of the Greek question." Said Izgrev: "Political circles comment on the meaning attached to last week's departure [from Athens] of the Yugoslav charge and the Soviet Ambassador. It is known that both left without requesting return visas. It is believed that perhaps the Slav countries will recall their diplomatic missions from Athens and will recognize a 'free Greece...
Greece is a key to the eastern Mediterranean and to the Dardanelles (which Russia wants). It is the only Balkan country still outside the Iron Curtain, and its frontier with Slav lands to the north (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania) is in fact a frontier between two worlds. The U.N. commission was in Athens last week because Greece charged that Russia's allies were trying to push that frontier south...
Alexei has had considerable success in encouraging pan-Slav propaganda and promoting other Soviet aims in the Iron Curtain countries. But elsewhere Alexei is not having much luck. Most Orthodox clergy are nonpolitical, like Tokyo's new Bishop Benjamin, of whom TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans cabled last week: "He is a simple, soft-spoken man who constantly rambled into a report of his sewing school, showing little interest in the ado over his bishopric...
...abolished. None of the Big Five would give it up, but the Western powers were willing to make some rules restricting its use. Russia's Vishinsky opposed "excessive reglamentation* and formalism." The final resolution, in effect, simply called on the veto-wielding powers to use restraint. The Slav bloc resisted even that much; the vote went against them...