Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent an ultimatum to Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia demanding redress and satisfaction over the capture and killing of U.S. airmen...
Although Marshal Tito cried that he wanted peace "but not at any price," he soon complied with the U.S. terms. The prisoners from the first plane were released (they said they had received good treatment); the bodies of the four known dead from the second plane were disinterred from the hasty grave in which they had been buried and escorted to Belgrade with highest military honors...
...world tormented almost to indifference by the international welter of civil strife, rioting, pillage, expropriation, the collapse of social and political tradition and the failure of the nations' leaders to achieve peace found one fact indisputable last week: in Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito's war planes had shot down two unarmed U.S. transports (one in flames) and killed four American citizens...
...State Department's request, the film had so far been sent only to Paris and Moscow. From Tito's Yugoslavia, the Paris showing brought charges of "atomic diplomacy." Cried Belgrade's Politika: a modern version of Theodore Roosevelt's well-remembered counsel, which might be paraphrased as "Speak softly but keep an atom bomb in your hand...
...Marshal Tito was about to get a wish. The U.S. ambassador was returning to Belgrade with something the Marshal had asked for: a genuine Chicago typewriter (Tommy...