Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Belgrade: In Communist Yugoslavia, which should understand Moscow and Peking better than the free capitals, the reaction to the Korean crisis was notably tough. The authoritative Review of International Affairs urged a show of strength against the Red aggressors...
...Pacific, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo. Several of the personal-adventure books made excellent reading. Best of the lot was British Brigadier Fitzroy Maclean's Escape to Adventure, a lusty, well-written narrative of daring and luck in carrying out cloak & dagger missions in Russia, Persia and Yugoslavia. Eric Williams' The Wooden Horse and Paul Brickhill's The Great Escape were both rattling good stories of daring British breaks from the same German P.W. camp...
George Petemezas seemed to be a young man with promise. Born in Pittsburgh of Greek parents, dark-eyed, natty George joined the Army before Pearl Harbor, served honorably as an OSS agent in Yugoslavia...
...Gladwyn Jebb listened with the urbane equanimity a Foreign Office man must pull on along with his drawers and socks while dressing each morning. Secretary General Trygve Lie, a ponderous, uncomfortable figure in blue, his hand plunged deep inside his coat, seemed a Falstaff, cast, under protest, as Napoleon. Yugoslavia's Ales Bebler, presiding, wore a sleepy, slit-eyed look of boredom. Nationalist China's T. F. Tsiang sat with the uninterested look of one who had known all along what was coming, and finally appeared to be dozing. All except Tsiang had held such high hopes...
...third time in two weeks, Harry Truman found a way to help Tito's famine-threatened Yugoslavia. From the North Atlantic defense funds the President took $16 million to help feed 32 Yugoslav divisions, arguing that it "will contribute . . . to the security of the North Atlantic area...