Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strode into the hall amid frenetic cheers from 1,642 delegates to the third Congress of the Yugoslav People's Front. While his followers stamped and cried "Tito, Tito!", he mounted the platform and put on his reading glasses. Then, as virulent as ever, he shouted defiance at Joseph Stalin's Cominform. They were trying to foment civil war in Yugoslavia, he cried. They were accusing him of doing business with the Western powers. Cocky Tito pleaded guilty to that charge. "Are we going to trade-that is, buy everything we need and sell everything...
...Settlement of the Yugoslav-Albanian conflict...
Outside the Baker Library, where he spoke, the Yugoslav tricolor flew...
Peter succeeded to the Yugoslav throne in a sudden palace move to avoid ratification of an extremely unpopular pact with Germany which had been pushed by regent Prince Paul. Almost immediately after, Peter fled by plane from the country and has never returned...
...maintaining close contacts with Yugoslavia after Tito's break with the Cominform. Like Tito, Markos had fought his own battle for power, and having achieved it, he liked to run things his own way. As a soldier, he believed that his army needed the crossing points on the Yugoslav border, and the training and supply bases behind it. For a while, he made this view prevail. The Cominform, however, had a blindly loyal follower in Moscow-trained Nicholas Zachariades, secretary general of the Greek Communist Party. At a recent meeting of Cominform leaders in Sofia, Politician Zachariades was told...