Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...similar emergencies. In fact, he had personally sent an ultimatum to the head of the Soviet Union, ordering the Russians to get out of Iran. The Russians had done so, said the President, because the U.S. still had the wartime muscle to back up its demand. A little later, Yugoslavia decided to take Trieste. The President had sent for General Eisenhower and General Marshall and the Navy; he had ordered the Mediterranean fleet into the Adriatic, and three divisions moved into Northern Italy. There was no march on Trieste...
...last week got a progress report from its military mission in Yugoslavia. Said the mission chief, Brigadier General John Harmony: The regime of Communist Tito is now considerably stronger, thanks to grants of arms from the capitalist...
...exact quantities of military supplies sent to Yugoslavia remain a military secret, but Harmony said that 30% of the military equipment allocated for the fiscal year 1950-51, and a slightly smaller percentage for 1951-52, had been delivered. Specific items included: fighter planes, tanks, armored and scout cars, antitank and antiaircraft guns...
...though the U.S. had hoped for a complement of 73. Its watch over the free U.S. arms is sharply limited. Harmony said he does not know, nor does he expect to know, what units of Tito's army finally receive the U.S. weapons which will help Communist Yugoslavia take its stand, alongside the free world, against the threat of Communist Stalin...
...Argentina, Cuba, France, Mexico, The Netherlands, Spain, the U.S., Yugoslavia...