Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ethridge and his colleagues on the U.N. Balkan Investigating Commission were instructed to check on charges and countercharges of frontier violations, provocations, guerrilla fighting and general hell-raising along Greece's frontier with her northern Communist neighbors (Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania). The Greek Left, as well as the Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish...
PARIS, February 10--The Allies signed peace treaties today with Italy and four other German satellites in a historymaking ceremony, but the ink was scarcely dry before violence flared in Rome and in Pola, Italian naval base coded to Yugoslavia...
Representatives of Italy and Yugoslavia, which had threatened not to sign the Italian treaty, reluctantly affixed their signatures, although both nations had protested against the new Italian-Yugoslav frontier, which creates an international zone around the port of Trieste...
...note specified the Canale river valley, the region of Goriza, Venetian Slovenia, Montfalcone, Trieste and the northwestern section of Istria as areas which should have been taken away from Italy and given to Yugoslavia...
...half-found that six European countries could not provide "the basic essentials" this year without UNRRA-type relief. The dollar value of these needs, after deducting those the claimants can hope to pay for: Austria, $143.5 million; Greece, $84.3 million; Hungary, $40.2 million, Italy, $106.9 milion; Poland, $139.9 million; Yugoslavia, $68.2 million. Total: $583 million...