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...Tito relaxed his talons, and the three American G.I.s and their mongrel mascot, which had shared their Yugoslav captivity with them, marched back to freedom. The Yugoslavs made the snatch last week while feeling out how far they could bluff the thin line of U.S. troops into bending back the new Yugoslav-Trieste frontier which they were guarding...
...point, the Yugoslavs whipped out pictures of Lenin, Stalin and Tito and asked the Americans to identify them. Later they brought their captives a table, chairs and a chess game...
...Last week, as the five treaties finally went into effect, and U.S. troops were getting ready to pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
...Trieste's woes were not entirely over, despite the strike's end, as the United States sent a sharp note to Yugoslavia demanding an immediate end to "irresponsible" ultimatums from Marshal Tito's troops in the Trieste area. The ultimatums mentioned in the protest were issued by Yugoslavs wishing to take over certain positions along the provisional boundary against American wishes. The Yugoslavs generally threatened to use force if necessary, although in most cases the arguments were settled...
...suggest that Tito-" Andrei rose and said: "Veto...