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...civilized world had made some well-meaning but ineffective protests. UNSCOB (the U.N.'s Special Committee on the Balkans) had verified the mass deportation of Greek children. The U.N. General Assembly had called on Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Rumania for the return of the children. These governments had finally agreed to return any children called for by petition of their parents. Up to last week the Greek Red Cross had forwarded 8,000 petitions, but not one child had been sent back...
Spokesmen for Albania and Bulgaria had been invited to answer amply documented charges made by UNSCOB (U.N.'s Special Committee on the Balkans). Instead of answering, the Albanian representative attacked the Greek government, saying that it cherished "mad" territorial designs on his country and that it had committed no less than 1,565 "armed provocations." Some of them, he added solemnly, were led by U.S. General James Van Fleet. Furthermore, said the Bulgarian spokesman, UNSCOB was a hand-picked group coached by the Greek "monarcho-fascists...
...guerrillas had been defeated in Greece, but the West feared that new attacks might be launched from Albanian and Bulgarian soil. The U.S., Britain, China and Australia introduced a motion asking for an embargo on arms to Albania and Bulgaria, until they were certified by UNSCOB as having stopped all aid to Greek Communists. Last week the embargo motion was approved by the U.N. Assembly's Political Committee, with only the Communist bloc (including Yugoslavia) voting against...
...Passed, 47 to 6, a vote of censure against Greece's northern neighbors, and continued the work of UNSCOB (United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans...
...Balkans. UNSCOB (United Nations Special Committee on the Balkans) is ready to submit a report giving solid evidence that Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia had aided the Markos guerrillas against the Athens government. It may throw some interesting light on whether aid from Yugoslavia has dwindled or stopped since Tito's country got kicked out of the Cominform...
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