Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sent an ultimatum to Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia demanding redress and satisfaction over the capture and killing of U.S. airmen...
...Unfamiliar names of newsmakers erupt into the headlines almost daily-Marshal Fevsi Çakmak. Princess Sukhodhaya, Sir Ofori Atta. And rare is the week that strange place names don't pop up, as the news shifts around from earthquakes in the Caribbean to incidents in the air over Yugoslavia. For months now the research librarian in charge of the Biography files in our Morgue has been working on a great continuing project to assist researchers in checking the proper names and titles of foreigners. It's a tough job. For example, one Siamese name, recently added...
When news of the second attack on a U.S. plane (see INTERNATIONAL) reached Washington, the State Department promptly released the text of a note sent to Yugoslavia last May 20. It accused the Yugoslav Government of a series of nefarious and unfair tactics in Trieste: subornation of the press, incitement to unrest, propaganda attacks on the A.M.G., criminal and terrorist activities, intimidation of the local public and local officials. Said the note, in effect: all this must stop...
...Forty-eight Hours. The note ridiculed the Yugoslav contention that the shootings were "accidental." It demanded the immediate release and safe conduct to the border of all U.S. plane occupants still alive and permission for them to be interviewed by a U.S. representative. The ultimatum gave Yugoslavia 48 hours from the time of its receipt to comply with the U.S. demands...
...State Department's request, the film had so far been sent only to Paris and Moscow. From Tito's Yugoslavia, the Paris showing brought charges of "atomic diplomacy." Cried Belgrade's Politika: a modern version of Theodore Roosevelt's well-remembered counsel, which might be paraphrased as "Speak softly but keep an atom bomb in your hand...