Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIFE Photographer John Phillips, TIME and LIFE had a firsthand news and picture story on Yugoslavia's beleagured-and hard to see -Marshal Tito in their Sept. 12 issues. Phillips has had the Marshal's confidence from the time he made a long, grueling march with a Yugoslav Partisan guerrilla column campaigning against the Nazis in 1944. Tito awarded him the Order of Merit. Later, when the Marshal was made "Hero of the Yugoslav People," Phillips was the only foreign guest among the 24 people at the ceremony. For his part, Phillips says he gave Tito the first...
...conspirator planted in Hungary's Communist Party. He said that he had worked in succession for Dictator Horthy's police, Hitler's Gestapo, and U.S. Intelligence. This year he had engaged in a plot to overthrow the Rakosi regime by force, on orders of Yugoslav Marshal Tito's Interior Minister, Alexander Rankovich...
...Balkans buzzed with ominous reports that Russia was massing troops on the Yugoslav border, Stalin's archfoe, Marshal Tito, was enjoying a quiet holiday at his island stronghold of Brioni, in the upper Adriatic. There he received LIFE Photographer John Phillips, who had covered Tito and his partisans during the war. Phillips cabled...
...wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship, covered by Soviet planes, steamed up & down the Danube in Yugoslav waters, defying orders to halt, and acting, said Belgrade, in a "deliberately provocative manner...
With a defiant "hands off!" meanwhile, the Yugoslav government kept up the furious pace of its propaganda war with the Kremlin. Blared Tito's Foreign Office last week: "Yugoslavia's people and its government will not allow anyone whomsoever to interfere in their internal affairs." As to the 31 Russian nationals who, Moscow said, had been treated "inhumanly" in Yugoslav prisons, they were all "spies, saboteurs and counter-revolutionaries...