Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that moment on, Larson's career was a closed book. Last week the White House announced that Arthur Larson, 47, would resign from USIA to become a special White House aide for "countering Soviet propaganda." His successor: veteran Career Diplomat George V. Allen, 53, former Ambassador to Iran, Yugoslavia, India and Greece, onetime Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and an old hand with Congress...
More than a year ago, the West German government solemnly threatened to break off relations with any country that recognized the Communist government of East Germany. Last week Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito, previously on the best of terms with West Germany, defied Bonn's displeasure and extended formal recognition to the East Germans...
...Yugoslavia was the first nation outside the Soviet bloc to recognize the East German puppet regime. After nearly a week of dithering, Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano concluded that, whatever the cost, he could not back down on a public and frequently repeated threat. At week's end Brentano called in the Yugoslav ambassador and handed him his walking papers...
...break with Yugoslavia had its drawbacks. If other nations followed Tito's lead, Bonn might be forced to break diplomatic relations with a large part of the world...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23--The State Department disclosed officially today that "we are reappraising" United States programs of economic and military aid for Communist Yugoslavia...