Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correspondents still on duty there rate these Eastern European countries according to the difficulty of getting re-entry visas. At present the rating is as follows: Albania, impossible; Rumania, impossible; Bulgaria, almost impossible; Hungary, very difficult and getting more so; Czechoslovakia, growing more difficult all the time; Yugoslavia, easier by comparison, but not always easy...
...limousine sped along Belgrade's narrow streets and broad avenues, between lines of poplars and policemen, lined up in front of the Great Hall of Topchider Park. Out of the car stepped a husky man in a blue dress uniform. Marshal Josip Broz Tito, Communist dictator of Yugoslavia and a gaudily tricked-out specter to the rest of the Communist world, was going to make a speech...
...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 we can-in order to buy imported machines?" he shouted. "Of course we will...
Anna's love affair with the Kremlin. Always a promoter of the old illusion that Communism and local patriotism can mix, she had applauded Yugoslavia's Tito too freely, and she was suspected of trying to get to China to peddle Titoism to her old friend, Mao Tse-tung. To this Anna answered: "Poppycock." She was already feeling better about being back home: "I feel more . . . comfortable in this country than in any other part of the world. I do not find it the most interesting or exciting country ... I want to go to some country where there...
...Union, and if the Soviet army, defending the cause of freedom and socialism, should be brought to pursue the aggressors onto our soil, could the workers and people of France have any other attitude toward the Soviet army than has been that of the peoples of Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia...