Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Foreign Office wastebaskets in Eastern Europe overflowed last week; Communists were tearing up treaties. Stalin began by formally denouncing Russia's treaty of mutual assistance with Tito's Yugoslavia. Sensing the Kremlin's Tito-indigestion, Russia's satellites dutifully burped: one by one they denounced the treaties with Yugoslavia which had been fanfared to the world...
Russia annulled her treaty with Yugoslavia on the ground that the confessions of Laszlo Rajk, onetime Communist Hungarian Foreign Minister, in the Budapest show trial, had proved the existence of a Tito-U.S. conspiracy against Russia...
...Tito in his reply to Moscow complained of Russia's "demonstrative Soviet troop movements in the neighboring countries along the Yugoslav border"; these, he said, were intended "to intimidate the Yugoslav peoples and to exercise pressure upon them." His most immediate worry was not that Yugoslavia would be invaded but that Yugoslav Communists would split under the Red army pressure...
Last week Tito pumped up some counterpressure by having the Yugoslav army stage the greatest maneuvers it had ever held. Tanks, with such slogans as "We Are Ready to Defend Our Country!" and "Tito Is Ours," rolled past the well-fed dictator in the Sumadija, a hilly area of Serbia. Belgrade papers printed an officially inspired opinion that the army had shown "exceptional readiness...
...Iron Curtain between Yugoslavia and the Soviet East zipped up tighter yesterday when Rumania announced she too had severed friendship treaties with Tito's country. The formal isolation of Yugoslavia from the East completes except for Czechoslovakia the moves of Poland, Bulgaria, and Hungary, who followed the lead of Russia...