Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since 1929 have U.S. gallery-goers seen the work, of Ivan Městrović, Yugoslavia's great sculptor. Sponsored by the American Academy and the National Institute of Arts & Letters, the exhibition was the artist's first anywhere since 1938. Squat, bearded Městrović, 63, whose art looks back to the past, had been physically caught up in the present...
...Businessman Griffis prepared to depart, another U.S. businessman quit the Foreign Service. Richard C. Patterson Jr., onetime vice chairman of the board of RKO, resigned the ambassadorship to the Russian-dominated government of Yugoslavia, where he had been as frustrated as Lane was in Poland. Private interests required his attention, said Patterson. As his successor, Harry Truman picked a State Department careerist: 52-year-old Cavendish Welles Cannon, whose large, pale, triangular face has been appearing in the trouble spots of southern Europe for 20 years, most recently in Lisbon, where he was First Secretary and Consul...
...Congress' stiff terms: 1) they must make a genuine effort to become selfsupporting; 2) they must give "full and continuous publicity" to the relief program and the U.S. origin of the food; 3) they must not export commodities of a type they receive from the U.S. (Last year Yugoslavia took in U.S. wheat by one door, and sent wheat out by another door to the Communist-controlled Government of Rumania to help win an election...
...full agreement with the House committee's views, the State Department promptly told Yugoslavia that it was ineligible for U.S. relief, either directly or through UNRRA, because its need was not great enough. If Marshal Tito had distributed food efficiently and nonpolitically last year, there would be no hunger in Yugoslavia now. Even if Tito wants to buy U.S. wheat, he will not get it until he convinces the U.S. that he will let non-Communists...
...could surrender their arms without fear of recrimination (they would be free to leave Greece or stay under police protection). New elections should be held under international surveillance. As concessions, Tsaldaris offered a wide amnesty to political oppositionists, and customs-free zones in the Aegean port of Salonika to Yugoslavia and Bulgaria...