Word: trabzon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until they came to the sea at Trebizond, Xenophon's Greeks marched in a set pattern; he repetitiously records that each day's march (stathmos) covered so many parasangs. The inexorable Russians, whose diplomatic movements also follow a set pattern, reached Trebizond (now Trabzon) last week...
...cession of this territory would greatly improve Russia's strategic position by making the Black Sea even more of a Soviet lake. Of its 2,000-odd miles of coast line, the U.S.S.R. now has about 45%, controls another 15% in Rumania and Bulgaria. The area west to Trabzon would give the U.S.S.R. some 8% more. With bases at the Straits, Russia would run the whole sea. Oil-conscious Russia also dislikes having an uncooperative Turkey right next to her great oil city of Batum and her new oil-rich satellite, Azerbaijan (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Moscow Jimmy Byrnes and Ernie Bevin recognized the move as a typical Russian conference tactic. They recalled the sudden announcement of a Soviet-sponsored Austrian government during the San Francisco conference, and the Russian recognition of the Lublin Poles just before Yalta. The claim to Trabzon was also recognizable as another stathmos in the Russian march toward the Mediterranean...