Word: sarajevo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White Russians faced the bare pine tribunal in the People's Court at Sarajevo to hear judgment passed on them on charges of spying for their Russian homeland, which they had not seen in three decades (TIME, Dec. 12). The courtroom was packed. Men & women stood in the aisles of the courtroom, others crowded around the loudspeakers in the corridors outside. Groups of school children had been herded in to be educated by the proceedings. In a flat monotone, wavy-haired Judge Stevo Yokanovic slowly read out the sentences...
State Prosecutor Enver Krzic, who knew that he would win his case before the trial started, eagerly drove home the point which Tito wanted to make with the Sarajevo performance. "Soviet leaders," he said, "in the struggle to subdue Yugoslavia, were forced to use these notorious spies and enemies of progress . . . [They] exploited these miserable people without a fatherland . . . because, in all Yugoslavia, they could not find Yugoslavs to do their dirty work...
Meanwhile, at Sarajevo, the minaret-studded Bosnian town where in 1914 Austria's Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated, Tito was having his own show. The defendants in the dock were accused of spying for Soviet Russia, collaborating with prewar Yugoslav fascists and plotting to overthrow the Tito regime...
...Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very serious ones, like Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland...
Thousands of Decisions. Millions in Europe and Asia have the beliefs and the courage of the girl in Prague, the bishop in Sarajevo. If their faith is stamped out, not all the uranium that will ever be mined can replace...