Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yugoslavia was scared stiff. Both Germany and Italy had troops massed near her frontiers (300,000 Italians were reported concentrated north of Fiume). Police uncovered an arsenal in a German cardboard factory. An Italian-Yugoslav commission investigated the death of one Italian soldier and the wounding of three others when Italian troops tried to disarm a Yugoslav sergeant on Yugoslav soil. The Italians said they thought the sergeant was in Italy...
...country. On the heels of the arrest of onetime Premier Milan Stoyadinovich (TIME, April 29), police last week clapped into jail a onetime police chief of Belgrade, Milan Achimovich. Slovene Nationalists issued a manifesto attacking Germany and Italy, which the Italian press promptly blamed on Allied intrigue. A Yugoslav trade commission reached Moscow and presumably talked also about diplomatic recognition of and by the big Slav brother. But Italy and Germany were on Yugoslavia's doorstep and Russia was far away...
Weaker Axis? It was generally conceded that Great Britain had arranged the Yugoslav rapprochement with Russia. Russia's position gave the Allies one patch of comfort in the mottled quilt of European power politics last week. German occupation of Denmark and Norway, making the Baltic once more a German lake, was hardly calculated to increase the security of Leningrad, for which Russia has just fought one costly war. Since Germany went into Norway, shipment of Russian materials to Germany has slowed down, through inefficiency, misroutings, losses and other deeply regretted causes. Russia has been very courteous in its dealings...
Sixteen other German barges were still held, with five Hungarian ones, two belonging to Socony-Vacuum. The Yugoslav permits are a new clog in Germany's supply line wherein the fine hand of British diplomacy may or may not be seen. Should Germany decide to impose her own control of through traffic on the Danube, fireworks might well follow in the Balkans...
...cheerful group then shut themselves behind locked doors, and talked their problems over. When they came out, they handed reporters a communique all about their "spirit of reciprocal understanding and cooperation"-but not a word about who will get first pickings on transit of Rumanian oil, Hungarian wheat, Yugoslav fruits, Bulgarian tobacco...