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Year 1949 ends with fragile peace and global tensions
A reflective summary highlights UN survival, the Hague court, and the North Atlantic Pact amid Berlin blockades, Tito Stalin clashes, Mindszenty trial, and British pound devaluation. It notes the fragile balance of East West relations and ongoing European and Asian political shifts shaping a cautious path to a calmer world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Nations
Permanent Court of International Justice
the Hague
Europe
Asia
Berlin
Smith
Stalin
Kingsbury Smith
International News Service
Truman
New York
Philip Jessup
Germany
Bonn
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Russia
Tito
Belade
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Nist Information Bureau
Communist International
Kremlin
Hungary
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
Romania
United States
Balkan
Josip Broz
Balkans
Mindszenty
Vatican
Budapest
Josef Cardinal Mindszenty
Archduke Otto
Hofburg
Vienna
Pius XII
Cardinal Mindszenty
Stafford Cripps
Winston Churchill
Britain
Cripps
Dunkirk
England
New Zealand
Australia
Dominions
Great Britain