Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conflict became available. Some hours after Andrei Vishinsky arrived in Belgrade for the Danube conference, pamphlets brought by his staff from Russia were shoved into Belgrade mailboxes, slipped under doors at night. They contained three letters from Moscow to Tito, written months before the public break. Last week, the Yugoslav Communist Party prepared to distribute a pamphlet containing Tito's replies. As few other documents have in recent years, the correspondence revealed the Marxist world's strange, stifling atmosphere of fear and arrogance, bickering and bombast. If the Earthworm Tractor Company's Alexander Botts had a course...
...true the [Yugoslav] government decided that [lesser officials] did not have the right to give important information to anyone . . . All our clerks . . . gave various people state economic secrets which could and sometimes did fall into the hands of our common enemies . . . To obtain such information, Soviet people should go higher, that is to the Yugoslav Communist Party and the Yugoslav government . . . From all this it can be seen that the above reasons are not the real cause for the measure now taken by the Soviet government and it is our desire that the U.S.S.R. openly inform us what the matter...
...rift was deep enough to keep the Yugoslav Communist Party congress in session until 2 a.m., denouncing the Cominform, on the night before a ten-nation Danube conference met in Belgrade. Marshal Tito turned his back on the Danube conference, dominated by the Russians, and went off to resume the vacation at Bled which had been interrupted by the Cominform attack on him. Belgrade's greeting to the Danubian delegates was notably cool-no outsize pictures of Soviet leaders, no special triumphal arches in the streets...
...long-standing charge that ECA was a U.S. plot to divide Europe, by urging "the greatest possible stimulation of trade" between Western and Eastern Europe (except for military items). He underlined his point by allotting ECA dollar credits for purchases in Czechoslovakia and Finland. Asked about Polish coal and Yugoslav lumber, Hoffman answered: "We want you to buy in Europe, whether or not it's behind the Iron Curtain...
...night of June 16 John secreted Bigart in a compartment, marked "reserved for invalids," of a train bound" for Macedonia. Next afternoon, at stocky, he was transferred to a battered UNRRA truck, and hidden under a tarpaulin. For the next eleven days, after dodging Yugoslav border patrols, he traveled by mule and on foot over rugged mountain trails, always in guerrilla hands, never sure that he would not meet the same fate as Polk...