Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trieste internationalized; Venezia Giulia and small Adriatic islands to Yugoslavia; Briga-Tenda and other border areas to France; Dodecanese Islands to Greece; all African colonies, which Big Four will dispose of within one year. Petsamo province and southern Karelia to Russia, which also gets a lease on the naval base at Porkkala-Udd, commanding the Gulf of Finland...
Unfederated Republic. The activities of the security police in the election campaign suggest that Poland is almost as much an unfederated Soviet republic as Yugoslavia. The UB (security force) is modeled after (and trained by) Russia's MVD. The chief is Stanislaw Radkiewicz, former schoolteacher and longtime Communist. When his assistant, Stanislaw Vachowicz, a Socialist, complained of the UB's activities, he was forced to resign. When Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski, Socialist stooge of the Communists, protested about the UB in Cabinet meetings, he was told to mind his knitting...
...year's man. He rode the postwar Russian flood, whipping it with a hard wind of propaganda. It welled up to the Persian plateau 22 miles from Teheran; it seeped deeply into China, licked at Tripolitania, reached for the Dardanelles, almost engulfed Trieste, soaked Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, threatened Germany, Austria, and even (through Russia's Communist Parties) Italy and France...
Last week Athens reported heavy troop movements and concentrations in Yugoslavia's Vardar Valley, north of Greece. It seemed likely that all such activity would stop before the Security Council investigators could get within gunshot. If Greece's northern neighbors should hastily sweep everything under the rug, it would be up to the investigators to lift...
...Brazil, China, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Poland, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. France also asked delay for French Indo-China, and The Netherlands for the Netherlands Indies...