Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Union. In the Council, the League executive organ, where one negative vote means defeat of a measure, those voting for Russia's ouster were France, Great Britain, Bolivia, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, the Union of South Africa and Egypt. Significantly, those abstaining were Greece and Yugoslavia, who felt they were a bit too near the Soviet Union for comfort; Finland, which decided not to be both plaintiff and judge, and China, which depends on Soviet Russian supplies for its war against Japan...
...Munich, did not halt her rearmament program. This section was published last month (TIME, Dec. n). Section three, "Germany's Efforts to Secure Peaceful Relations With Its Neighbors," traces the activities of the Führer "to achieve good relations" with Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Hungary and Lithuania. The Führer is quoted (cracking back when British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson complained of German noncooperation with Britain) : "It takes two to make a love match." In the fourth and final section, "Poland as the Tool of England's War Will," the German White...
...Allied-German duel for Yugoslav trade the Nazis appeared the winners of round one. The Germans forced Yugoslavia to recognize (in principle) pre-World War I debts incurred by Serbia and by the old Austrian province of Bosnia, now in Yugoslavia. Remarkable feature of this agreement was that neither debt has been serviced since 1914, and that both were virtually considered as having lapsed. To pay off the "debts," Yugoslavia will presumably offer goods...
...Relations with Yugoslavia are improving. There are no unsolvable problems between the two countries...
Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...