Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Resolved: that the Security Council under Article 34 of the Charter establish, a commission to ascertain the facts relating to the alleged border "violations along the frontier between Greece on the one hand and Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia on the other...
...Council agreed that all of Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia should be open territory for the investigation. This was a compromise between Russia's desire to include all of Greece but only the borders of the other three, and Britain's desire to include all of the three Soviet satellite lands but only the borders of Greece. The investigators were directed to proceed to the trouble zone by Jan. 15. Each of the Security Council's eleven members will be represented...
Tsaldaris charged that Yugoslavia is taking in guerrillas from Greece, housing, feeding, training and arming them, and sending them back into Greece to fight. Yugoslavia's Ambassador to the U.S., Sava Kosanovic, hotly denied these accusations, argued that Greece's troubles were entirely due to the blunders and unpopularity of the Government...
...speech even approaching dissent came from Delegate Dragolyub Yovanovic, recently expelled from Tito's puppet Peasant Party. Yovanovic said the bill was "perfect"-but that since it affected everybody in Yugoslavia it should first be submitted to a plebiscite. Then he too voted for immediate adoption of a measure which brought full socialization to the westernmost point it has yet reached...
...companionways, deep in the engine rooms and even in the ancient, rotting lifeboats high in the davits, 3,854 refugees, 591 of them children, struggled for life. In a small armada of launches, caïques, fishing smacks and rowing boats, they had left tiny coves in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Greece, to be picked up by the ship...