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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disclosed that Tito was a Titoist. From 1949's meeting emerged a call for the "active fight of the revolutionary elements inside of the Yugoslav Communist Party as well as outside." This was taken to mean a campaign to break Tito by all means short of formal war. Mikhail Suslov, the highest Soviet official to attend (he is a member of the Orgburo, next echelon below the Politburo), was reported by returning Cominform delegates to have stated that the Red army itself would never attack Yugoslavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Last Straw? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Only last September, Stalin's faithful satellite Hungarians had tried (and hanged) Interior Minister Laszlo Rajk on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Hungarian government and plotting war against Soviet Russia; Bulgaria last week was preparing to try former Deputy Premier Traicho Rostov on charges of conspiring with Tito to overthrow the Bulgarian government and sabotaging the interests of Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Face on the Courtroom Wall | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...war's end, when foggy hope of cooperation between the democracies and Communism swirled everywhere, labor unions of 56 nations got together in Paris and set up the World Federation of Trade Unions. The organization included Soviet Russia's state-run "unions," big Communist-infiltrated unions like those in France and Italy, and genuinely democratic labor organizations. Early this year, emerging out of the postwar fog of confusion, Western labor finally fully realized that the only way to "cooperate" with Communists is to submit to them. The U.S.'s C.I.O. and Britain's T.U.C. (Trades Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Free Labor | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Sydney Holland, 56-year-old businessman, sheep rancher, World War I artilleryman, and politician since 1935, forcefully led the attack. "Make your pounds go further," he cried. "We'll give you more for less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Revolt of the Guinea Pigs | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Refitted and rechristened the Implacable, she sailed out in 1808 to fight triumphantly with the Swedes against the Russians, the French and the Danes in the Baltic. Some 30 years later she headed for the Mediterranean with a combined fleet of British, Austrian and Turkish vessels, in the 1840 war against Egypt. A symbolic cock (to show that she was cock of the walk) rode high above her royals when she returned to Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cock of the Walk | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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