Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disappointed to note a tinge of snobbery in your recent article on Marshal Tito. I believe that his rise from the son of a poor peasant to the Communist President of Yugoslavia is a story in many ways paralleling the traditional American Horatio Alger legend . . . I, therefore, rue the day when we look down upon a man for being, not a Communist dictator, but "The Peasant...
...Yugoslavs met again in the Hall of Guards to sign the communiqué threshed out by their underlings. While the 1,500-word document was read aloud, Khrushchev made little faces at a couple of Russian cameramen he spotted in the crowd. When the reading finished, Tito signed for Yugoslavia, and Premier Bulganin, for the first time accorded the leading role, signed for Russia. The instant the signing was over. Khrushchev took over, leaping up to shake every hand within reach...
...Khrushchev insultingly asked the Belgian ambassador whether his country was free, and when assured that it was, remarked that the Belgian could only say that because the U.S. ambassador had just left. Goateed Premier Nikolai Bulganin undiplomatically proposed a toast to neutrality, only to have Tito announce bluntly that Yugoslavia was neither neutral nor neutralist, but fiercely independent. Bulganin said lamely he had meant Switzerland...
...Comrade Khrushchev's fulsome apology to ex-Comrade Tito last week than he was ready with a counterblast that denied it all. "Our surprise at that statement," wrote Vidali, "has been enormous. Our party has been shaken ... in the same way that the bora [a cold wind from Yugoslavia] shakes our trees...
...cannot express agreement with Comrade Khrushchev's declaration," said Vidali. "We are profoundly grieved." Following the Kremlin's twisting line around every turn was getting to be too much for a simple-minded fellow like Vidali. First it had been his job to deliver Trieste to Yugoslavia; then, after Tito's schism, the party line called for keeping Trieste independent; finally, last year, he was supposed to cooperate in turning Trieste over to the Italians, though a goodly portion of his Trieste Communists are Slovenes. He was also pressed to give up his autonomy and submit...