Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among Communists who played court to the big boss was Red China's touring Defense Minister, who turned up in Tirana. Belgrade further reported that "most" Eastern European satellites had asked and received permission to send planes across Yugoslavia with unspecified passengers for Albania. It could hardly be said that the party big wheels had picked a Communist show place to gather in. But then the Khrushchev party's next stop is Hungary...
...walked through the exhibits examining national products, eager representatives flooded him with gifts: a hippopotamus-skin shield decorated with gold and silver (Ethiopia), a coffee table (Liberia), embroidered linen (Yugoslavia), cloisonne vase (Japan), Bible (Israel), a boxed edition of Don Quixote printed on and bound in cork (Spain), 100 cigars (Cuba). From Eelco van Klef-fens, the European Coal and Steel Community's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ike got a boxed paperweight made up of metal flags of Common Market nations. Though the other gifts were to be sent down to Washington, he said, "My son can carry this...
...Yugoslavia in 1947, Counselor of Embassy Cabot was credited with a major role in persuading Tito to break with Moscow...
...Lost Cord. In Bonisdorf, Austria, Bürgermeister Rudolf Schadl inspected 4 cubic meters of firewood cut on village land, returned the next day to find the woodpile still neatly stacked-but 32 feet away, in Yugoslavia...
...Some 800 of the subjects of TIME'S covers had died before he began his collection. Of the remaining 120-odd "possibles" still alive, most are what he calls "Reds and royalty," two categories that have not widely responded to his appeals, though he has the signatures of Yugoslavia's Tito and Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti, of King Hussein of Jordan and Queen Frederika of Greece...