Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buses and streetcars too. We don't care about going to clubs . . . We have our own friends." But 40-year-old Vladimir Dedijer (pronounced Dayd-yer), devoted Communist, had no friends who could, or would, help him out of the trouble he was in. The only man in Yugoslavia to speak up for him at all-ex-Vice President Milovan Djilas-was himself in just as much trouble. The two men fought alone last week in a suspenseful but losing battle against Yugoslavia's Communist hierarchy. It was a rare sight: a deep and significant squabble deep inside...
Spit in the Face. A few hours later, Edvard Kardelj, the No. 2 man in Yugoslavia, the man who prosecuted Djilas and is now running the country while Titc is away, spoke up. "Every honest man would spit in the face of 'politicians' of this type," he told a party gathering at Sarajevo. That Djilas and Dedijer should air their grievances abroad, he said, represents "a filthy blackmail of our democracy...
...status of Trieste was settled after nine years of Communist-comforting tension between Italy and Yugoslavia. When U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce impressed Washington with the urgency of a settlement, U.S. and British diplomacy went to work. The Italians and the Yugoslavs were persuaded to sign a settlement dividing the territory, with the Italians getting the Italian city...
With all the strength, intelligence and zeal he possesses-and he is well supplied with all-Vladimir ("Vlado") Dedijer, a strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) Serb, has devoted most of his life to Yugoslavia's particular brand of Communism and to its rugged messiah, Marshal Tito...
...plain civilian suit. Tito addressed India's combined Houses of Parliament. "Admissions by the present Soviet leaders that Yugoslavia was wrongly treated," he said, had convinced him that "there has been a change in Russia . . . Tensions have now subsided." Tito tenaciously discoursed upon Yugoslavia's Socialism in heavily accented English, but when he left the subject of Asia behind, the Indian M.P.s lost interest and began chattering to one another. Tito also talked alone with Nehru for ten hours. The gist of his message: Malenkov is less ambitious than Stalin and lacks Stalin's iron will; Malenkov...