Word: cession
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Wanted: Epirus. The overwhelming majority of Greeks did not want to lose Macedonia. The dominant Communist element in EAM lost popularity when it came out in favor of a "little Greece" and the cession of Macedonia to a Balkan federation. Last week EAM echoed the Belgrade and Moscow press: it publicly attacked the Voulgaris Government for promoting a "regime of terror...
...Rectification of Turkey's Balkan frontier. Apparently this meant the cession to Bulgaria of the Turkish Aegean port of Alexandroupolis (Dedeagach...
...Rectification of Turkey's Asia Minor frontier. This meant the cession of the Kars region (with the town of Ardahan) to Russia. The Kars area (see map), was wrested from Turkey by the Tsars in the 19th Century, given back by the Bolsheviks in 1921, when Allied forces were in control of Kars...
...Cession of the Saar and other Rhineland industrial areas to France; cession of East Prussia to Poland...
Fretted by Congressional demands for permanent American control over naval, troop and air bases already under leases to the U.S., House of Commons members asked Winston Churchill for assurances that Britain will keep her own.* Said he, with sharp finality: "There is not the slightest question of any cession of British territories - not the slightest...