Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other facts & figures showed the difficulties under which the nations labored, trying to keep their populations alive. From a prewar base period, when the world fared moderately well, China's farm draft power (horses, tractors, etc.) had dropped 20%; Italy's, 26%; Austria's, 40%; Yugoslavia's, 54%; Poland's, 64%; Russia's, 65%. Food distribution was slowed by the war wreckage of transportation systems, resulting in spoilage...
...with minor disagreements, 15 minor articles of the proposed Austrian peace treaty. Then the sessions bogged down again. On every major question, Russia and the U.S. were at odds. Russia asked that a slice of Austria (southern Carinthia) and $150 million in reparations from Austria be given to Yugoslavia. The Western powers refused. Russia wanted "German assets" in Austria (available for seizure as German reparations) defined to include all property transferred by Austrians to Germans during the Anschluss. The Western powers wanted to except assets transferred under Nazi duress...
Obviously Marshal Tito was just a square. He wasn't hep and neither was Yugoslavia's newspaper Glas. Said Glas: jazz is "senseless, impossible combinations of sounds calculated to arouse the lowest, most atavistic and long-suppressed instincts in man." Worse than that, added Glas, it is "music conditioned and tied up with capitalist society...
...halting English. For 25 years he had quietly taught his technique to sculpture students who came from all over the world to his school in Zagreb. In 1938 he finished a work close to his heart: his own house in Split (Spalato), on a promontory overlooking the Adriatic. When Yugoslavia was taken over by the Fascists, Městrović was jailed for pro-Allied sympathies. After four months he was released through the intercession of the Vatican; in Rome, he reciprocated by modeling the Pope. He spent the rest of the war in Geneva. In ten busy months...
...Yugoslavia, which at last reports had 157,000 cases. Even in comparatively well-fed Zagreb, T.B. had risen...