Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Russia's NiKITA KHRUSHCHEV stepped off a plane at Belgrade's Zemun Airport and spouted his slavering apology for the 1948 ouster of Yugoslavia from the Cominform, TIME'S editors pulled a quick switch and scheduled Marshal TITO for this week's cover. At hand was Cover Artist Ernest Hamlin Baker's latest portrait of Tito. Prophetically, the portrait shows the great stone face that Tito turned on the Russian delegation as Khrushchev made his abject recital. Bonn Bureau Chief James Bell, who watched the incredible scene on the newly asphalted apron...
...other and more fascinating of the European dramas was staged in Yugoslavia, where the top men of Soviet Russia went to call on, to apologize to and to woo Dictator Tito, a man they had repeatedly condemned as a traitor, murderer and spy. Seldom in all history has so powerful a nation so abjectly reversed its position before the watching eyes of the world (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Josip Broz Tito, the heretic who got away with it, this was a moment to savor. Splendidly adorned-braided cap, sky-blue military blouse with ribbons, red-striped slacks-he drove out to Belgrade's Zemun Airport and waited. Seven years before, Russia's masters had kicked Yugoslavia out of the Cominform, reviled Tito as "traitor," "fascist," "spy and murderer," urged his people to revolt against him, harassed his borders, shut off his country's trade. Dictator Tito, an old hand at intrigue himself, survived it all. Now, unrepentant and unintimidated, master in his own land, Tito...
...respect. No proud nation, least of all 70 million Germans, is likely to take kindly to the Russians' suggestion that it join a buffer belt of international eunuchs and meekly stand aside from conflicts which might decide its fate. Along these lines, the reaction of Tito's Yugoslavia was symptomatic and instructive. "One of the basic characteristics of a buffer state is the absence of independence," said one paper. Added another: "To imagine Yugoslavia as a passive country which has ceased to appraise events independently means to believe that she has repudiated the conditions of her existence...
...lives was waging another match with death. On May Day Togliatti journeyed to Trieste to deliver Italian Communism's principal May Day speech. He also had to tackle a serious jurisdictional problem that flared up when Italy regained control of Trieste, and threatens to heat up further if Yugoslavia and Russia come closer to a reconciliation. The Trieste Communist Party has a heavy Slovene membership, and its fiery boss, Vittorio Vidali, is resisting Togliatti's efforts to take over the Trieste party now that Trieste is Italian again. Togliatti devoted part of his May Day speech to telling...