Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets are leading from several weaknesses. There are the natural aspirations of the Russian people, after 42 years of Communist rule, for a better life and freedom; there is Soviet awareness that, while by force and through intermediaries, "it may reign over Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia, Prussia and Saxony, it has not won them over...
...Long Silence. "Africa is calling," Donald wrote cheerily. The tour headed south to the Riviera, turned east into Italy, drove across Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon, and finally put their cars aboard a boat bound for Port Said. On July 24, Donald sent his sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food...
With justice, the agreement to return Trieste to Italy was widely hailed as a triumph of U.S. diplomacy-the happiest feasible outcome of a territorial dispute that had long poisoned relations between Italy and Marshal Tito's Yugoslavia. But this week, as the fifth anniversary of the great day approached, no one felt like putting out more flags. When Trieste's Mayor Mario Franzil laid a wreath in the piazza in memory of pro-Italian rioters killed during the Allied occupation, only the pigeons looked on. After five years of Italian rule, once flourishing Trieste is dying economically...
Trieste, says its mayor, has become "a beautiful head without a body or bloodstream." Under the 1954 agreement, almost all the city's Istrian hinterland went to Yugoslavia. The Yugoslavs have worked hard to build up nearby Fiume (now called Rijeka) as a rival port. By keeping labor costs at coolie levels, Rijeka offers shippers rates running 20% to 50% below Trieste's. The nations of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, for which Trieste used to be the prime port, are mostly Communist now, but even non-Communist Austria has diverted so much of its business to Rijeka...
Like love triangles throughout history, Russia's recent flirtation with the West has resulted in jealousy and political temper-tantrums on the part of China. The atrocities in Tibet, squabbles with India, denunciations of the U.A.R. and Yugoslavia are the embarrassing and peevish actions of a self-righteous and somewhat neglected power...