Word: tito
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...months later, when Tito broke with Moscow, the West reneged on its promise. It decided that it would be impolitic to force Tito out of Trieste at a time when he might be won over to the West; it chose the easier course of forgetting its promise to Italy, explaining it away, as a Foreign Office diplomat did only last week: "If a solution were possible, we'd propose it straightaway . . . But ... I honestly don't see a solution in view. They've just got to compromise, the pair of them...
...weak to face down Marshal Tito by themselves, the embittered Italians have come to regard the West's unredeemed pledge as no more than a cynical campaign trick. That feeling hurt De Gasperi in last month's election. Trieste is a symbol as compelling as reunification to Germans, or 54-40 to Americans of the 1840s. To Italians the word packs an emotional wallop out of all proportion to its economic importance...
...Cousin of Manhattan Lawyer O. John Rogge, who took an opposite tack, became one of the leaders of the fellow-traveling Progressive Party, later a registered lobbyist for Tito...
...State John Foster Dulles: "A new convulsion is under way . . . Inherent weakness is disclosed." British Foreign Under Secretary Anthony Nutting called it "the dividend of our strength." In Bonn, Adenauer's rivals saw Beria's fall giving them an edge in the coming elections. In Yugoslavia, Tito's henchmen saw it as proof "that the Kremlin was introducing Titoism into the satellites." In India, Beria's fall was seen as justifying Nehru's thesis that Peking cannot be controlled by Moscow forever...
...Though ill with a circulatory ailment, complained the Yugoslav press, Cardinal Stepinac refuses to leave his remote Croatian village and travel abroad for medical treatment-just as he refused to go to Rome last winter to receive his red hat from the Pope, fearing that Tito would never allow him to return...