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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Journey to the West. For him, for Greece and for the western world, it had been an interesting trip. The British had given him his first journey by air. In London he had talked with Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, the U.S.'s Jimmy Byrnes, and his exiled sovereign, George II. Thanks to the hostility of Viacheslav Molotov, the bearded statesman of Athens had been excluded from the sessions of the Council of Foreign Ministers (see INTERNATIONAL). But he had made his presence felt in London; he had dramatized the pivotal position of his country in the new geopolitics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: If We Hold Fast . . . | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Prince Otto Weriand Hugo Ernst Windisch-Graetz, one of the biggest land holders in the area, turned up in Rome with a solution to this problem: a new sovereign state with himself as ruler. At the very least, he insisted, Yugoslavs must not be permitted to deforest any area ceded to them, lest the springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: New Europe | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...eastern Europe, Russia had climbed down a little way. It realized at last that the Western powers held a potent threat: they could refuse to sign peace treaties with puppet governments in Eastern Europe. For a fortnight the Russian press raged against Anglo-American interference with internal affairs of sovereign Balkan nations. London denied the charge of Balkan intrigue. Once the U.S. and Britain had taken a firm stand, direct intervention was not necessary to encourage democratic elements in eastern Europe which looked to the West for both economic aid and political sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: New Europe | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

Arrogant Japanizers tarred the Koreans' traditional white clothes, jailed them for "thought crime," poisoned their sovereign Yi Hyeung, deposed his dynasty. In 1919, in a remarkable display of mass passive patriotism, Koreans declared their independence. The Japanese retaliated with executions and the flogging of 11,000 demonstrators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: Kim Koo & Kim Kun | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...first scheduled caller was Representative Mike Mansfield of Montana, a Congressional authority on Asiatic affairs. Afterward, Mansfield felt free to say publicly that the U.S. should not and could not guarantee to leave intact "the prerogatives of His Majesty as a sovereign ruler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victory: The Surrender | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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