Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Austria, only a massive range of mountains and a four-dollar visa (easily obtainable) separate the American citizen from Yugoslavia. Near the frontier, the Loiblpass rises like an angry snake, symbolic of Tito's political machinations over the last eight years; but on the other side, Slovenia, one of the seven federated states, stretches into a timid plain...
Lubiana, a modern city in Slovenia, is bustling with activity. While eating breakfast there, a doctor sat at my table, the only available place. After introduction, he spoke to me in low tones, in French. "Why are you sending aid to Yugoslavia?" "Well, you must realize its strategic importance for us," I replied. He shrugged his shoulders. "Yes, but you don't expect anything from it, do you?" The doctor had been a political prisoner and was still under surveillance. It was his way of expressing hostility towards the regime. Feelings towards Tito range from outright reverence to doubt...
...John Rogge, an Assistant Attorney General (1939-40) in the Roosevelt Administration and special assistant to the Attorney General for the Nazi sedition trial of 1944. Rogge, once a darling of the Communists, is now the U.S. lawyer representing Marshal Tito's anti-Stalinist Communist government of Yugoslavia...
Housing Minister Harold Macmillan earned a cheer for the Tories' biggest tangible achievement of their first year in power: their promise of 300,000 new houses a year, which the Socialists had derided, now looked possible. Anthony Eden, freshly back from his chat with Yugoslavia's Tito, with his new bride at his side, was cozily reassuring about the global future. "We have gone ahead at a pretty good jog-trot," he said. It remained for the top Tory himself to crow the loudest...
Last spring ten nations (Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France, West Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Yugoslavia) organized CERN (Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) and agreed to chip in for a nuclear research center. Continental Europe has plenty of big scientific brains, but no big apparatus...