Word: slavia
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...have to pay by a host of wily methods. They lie on their declarations, and use forged documents, doctored contracts, paper shuffling and tricky bookkeeping to fool the customs men. Their schemes often involve bringing in cheaper merchandise from behind the Iron Curtain: canned meat from Poland and Yugo slavia, steel, machinery and porcelain from East Germany, heating pipe from Hungary and even camel hair that probably originates somewhere in Asiatic Russia...
...home, and to the Communists of other countries, Tito insists that Yugoslavia is more Communist than Russia. For the Western democracies he insidiously and discreetly spreads the impression that Yugo slavia me gradually being liberalized. This was the line given me "confidentially" or "off the record" by almost every Communist official with whom I talked...
...Andy Harchar's all-tile Slavia Bar, on street corners and outside Capy's Lunch, the responsible heads talked it over. Would a long strike fail...
...Twenty-three years before, he had been koum to Peter's father, King Alexander I of Yugo slavia, who married Princess Marie of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
...Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized Tito as head of his provisional administration inside Yugo slavia. Tito agreed that at war's end Yugo slavs would get a chance to vote for what ever kind of government they wanted. Meanwhile, the King might continue to call himself King...