Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov finally offered a compromise-putting Trieste under dual Italo-Yugoslav sovereignty. But growing clashes between Italians and Slovenes in the city already showed how hopeless such a plan would be. When Byrnes turned it down, Molotov snapped: "If you mean that no compromise is possible, why not say so?" Byrnes shot back: "Because it isn't true. I have accepted several compromises. . . . So far as I can see you have retreated nowhere...
...Worse. Bidault then offered a complicated compromise calling for Big Four plus U.N. plus joint Italo-Yugoslav rule of Trieste for ten years. (Senator Vandenberg called it "something out of Gilbert & Sullivan . . . more government per square inch than ever established anywhere.") Nobody liked the plan, not even Bidault; but all agreed to study...
...delegates will attend a welcoming reception on July 9 given at the Hotel Diplomat by 1,000 students of New York City. Guest speakers at the meeting will be Stoyan Gavrilovic, Yugoslav delegate to the UN, Edouard Lindeman of Columbia University, and Lisa Sergio, radio commentator...
Last week, in the stifling summer heat of a makeshift courtroom outside Belgrade, the onetime hero of Yugoslav resistance was very tired. Prison-pale and peering myopically through his thick-lensed glasses, he tried wearily to turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best...
...against Soviet Russia, Josip Broz, the Communist toolmaker who called himself "Tito," appeared on the scene. To Mihailovich, the exiled government's official military leader, Tito may have seemed no more than a rabble-rouser leading a pack of bandits. Mihailovich clearly felt it his duty to unify Yugoslav resistance under his leadership and to hold his forces in readiness for the day when the Allies struck at the Germans from outside the country. But Mihailovich failed to liquidate Tito, whose power waxed as the Serb's waned...