Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veteran newsmen wondered how anything could ever come out of the wild confusion. One delegate mistook a two-star admiral for a Yugoslav observer. Reporters themselves caught the fever. One thought he was buttonholing Walter Reuther, embarrassedly found he was talking to a Chicago Tribune staff writer...
Tito, after his fashion, had been reciprocating. Last week a wave of political arrests in Yugoslavia rounded up people suspected of being too friendly with the Americans and British. Reports came from Belgrade that more reservists, in smart new Russian-type uniforms, were being called up. No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center...
Before the French Communist Executive Committee Papa Duclos pitched into Comrade Togliatti for arguing that Trieste must remain "Italian" rather than become Yugoslav, as Comrade Tito insists. Meanwhile, Les Cahiers published an article on Trieste by Stephane Mitrovitch, Yugoslav veteran of the old Comintern. Charged Mitrovitch: "Our Italian comrades . . . [are guilty of] political and theoretical deviations . . . erroneous conceptions . . . [that reinforce] reactionary forces in Italy and the world...
Early in the German occupation, Mihailovich was hailed as hero and leader of the Yugoslav resistance movement. But after Tito's Partisans rose up to battle the Germans, he turned from fighting the invader to fighting his rivals...
...case as usual had been damaged by U.S. practice. In Bavaria, one General Radovan Popovitch had organized 10,000 compatriots into a "Royal Yugoslav Army," rented some of them out to the U.S. Army. Washington ordered these mercenaries dismissed. At week's end Vishinsky presented a Tito complaint against the use on the Italo-Yugoslav frontier of General Wladyslaw Anders' émigré Polish army-which is paid by the British...