Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...embarrassing task: making his promised new explanation of the execution of Party Secretary Rudolf Slansky in 1952 for "activities against the state." Slansky was guilty, all right, explained Novotny, but not of what he was accused of. The charges presented in court, particularly those implicating Tito's Yugoslavia, were all "false and fabricated." But authorities had since discovered new Slansky crimes, e.g., torturing suspects. Therefore, Slansky would not be rehabilitated...
...expose affects foreign Communist leaders who-living under no "reign of terror" in their own countries-had no excuse for their slavish subservience to Stalin's will (see below). Instead, the Kremlin turned to the one surviving European Communist leader with a certified anti-Stalin record: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. In the Kremlin's new reckoning, Tito was a "cleanskin" who could persuade neutralist and socialist governments, and waverers in NATO and SEATO, that the Soviet change of heart is genuine...
...Moscow last week that "there are no longer any important problems to solve" between Russian Communism and Yugoslav Communism. In the Kremlin's lofty, alabaster-white, great Hall of St. George, a reporter drew Tito's attention to U.S. congressional threats to cut off U.S. aid to Yugoslavia. Said Tito, resplendent in his blue uniform: "It is not important. Our relations with the U.S. remain as before." But will they...
...recall the first days when the conflict between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia began artificially to be blown up ... I was invited to visit Stalin who, pointing to the copy of a letter lately sent to Tito, asked me, 'Have you read this?' Not waiting for my reply, he answered, 'I will shake my little finger-and there will be no more Tito. He will fall...
...visited Yugoslavia with B. & K., who took him along instead of Molotov. A month later he visited Egypt, where in private talk with Nasser he presumably laid the foundation for the Czech arms deal...