Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outrageous Acts." The Yugoslav incident was not the most important, but it was the most inflammatory...
When news of the second attack on a U.S. plane (see INTERNATIONAL) reached Washington, the State Department promptly released the text of a note sent to Yugoslavia last May 20. It accused the Yugoslav Government of a series of nefarious and unfair tactics in Trieste: subornation of the press, incitement to unrest, propaganda attacks on the A.M.G., criminal and terrorist activities, intimidation of the local public and local officials. Said the note, in effect: all this must stop...
After Jimmy Byrnes's shorthand had been transcribed, Acheson called in the Yugoslav Charge d'Affaires and handed him a blistering U.S. note: "These outrageous acts have been perpetrated by a Government that professes to be a friendly nation. . . . The use of force . . . was without the slightest justification in international...
...Hans Hotter, a Munich Opera baritone, sing a roughly hewn but virile hero in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The cast included a promising, pretty, 30-year-old Bulgarian soprano named Ljuba Welitsch, who was the hit of the Vienna opera season in Salome. Don Ottavio was sung by Yugoslav Tenor Anton Dermota, whose performance was uneven, but at its best better than any Don Ottavio that Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera has heard in years. Eight years of Hitlerism had not destroyed the old Austro-German tradition of stagecraft; Don Giovanni had been so painstakingly rehearsed that every part...
Tito had to be flexible enough to unite Italian Communist workers with conservative Slovene farmers. His "nationalistic internationalism" says in the same breath: "Slovenes-unite with your brother Slavs in the new greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...