Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction took several forms. After ten years of stalling, the Soviet Union finally signed a peace treaty for Austria, agreeing to long-resisted clauses in return for Austrian neutrality. At the same time, with noticeable urgency, the Kremlin arranged a top-level mission to Yugoslavia, a pilgrimage to beg Marshal Tito to take a neutral position...
...travelling circus of Messrs. Kruschev, Bulganin, and Co. will swing into Belgrade next week with "open hearts and pure minds," there can be no question that this latest of Soviet moves poses one of the most serious threats so far to the solidarity of the Western aliance. If only Yugoslavia were at stake, the Russian overtures for expanded trade and treaty ties would not be so significant. Yugoslavia, after all, is not a member of NATO and is bound to the West only through the Turkish-Greek triangle and United States military support. But the Soviet actions are important because...
...great departure from previous Soviet policy. In the present case, the move is not primarily military, as, say, was the establishment of the Berlin blockade or the arming of the satellite nations. Moscow now is holding out to Tito the promise of real economic concessions from which Yugoslavia can clearly benefit. And if the trend which began with the Austrian peace treaty should continue--and there is no reason to think that a Russian cannot recognize a good thing as well as the next man--the Kremlin will offer similar economic and political concessions to states farther west than...
...fund, in effect, shows the tenor of the message as a whole: the recognition that different types of aid must meet different situations. Although some might wish the President's program gave more emphasis to economic development, military forces are clearly needed to counter opposing armies--whether in Korea, Yugoslavia, or the Middle East. But Congress should realize that rifles without rice do not reinforce a line of defense...
Matter of Form? Artist Barak met his fiancee, Oriah, soon after she arrived from Yugoslavia in 1951. The Orthodox Christian daughter of a Belgrade accountant, Oriah had been expelled by Tito's government for anti-Communist activities, had found Israel the only country ready to give her an immigration visa. But when Oriah and Moshe decided to marry, the local rabbi told them that Israeli law forbids Jews to marry Christians. The only way out was for Oriah to become a Jew, or for Barak to become a Christian-purely "as a matter of form." The young couple refused...