Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yugoslavia, I went to Belpoggio. Now I have to move again, but this time I'm not stopping even in Trieste. I'm going right on to Sicily and be safe...
...surprise of almost all concerned, Russia's "new-look" promoters were even able to summon up kind words for the Western powers' Trieste settlement. Though the partition of the territory between Italy and Yugoslavia bluntly disregarded Moscow's insistence on internationalization and a role in Trieste's control, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky notified the Security Council that the Soviet Union "takes cognizance" of the Trieste agreement as one that "will promote . . . normal relations . . . and thus contribute toward a relaxation of tension." In his last words on the subject a year ago, Vishinsky had vowed...
...something else again to impose the line onto the patchwork of tiny vineyards, minute garden patches and chicken yards that speckle a Trieste hillside. Well armed with the tools of the surveyor's profession, a detachment of the border commission in charge of dividing Trieste between Italy and Yugoslavia arrived one day last week at the two-acre plot of Luca Eller, a 65-year-old farmer of Italian extraction. The commissioners discovered that the line laid out in the Trieste agreement would cut directly through the trim, two-story red house where Eller lived with his wife...
...Yugoslavs on the mixed commission (made up of Yugoslavs, Americans, Britons and some Italian observers) promptly suggested that the line be bent to put the entire Eller farm in Yugoslavia. While a large crowd of kibitzing Italian and Yugoslav peasants looked on, the line-drawers argued it out. The U.S. senior officer present, Major William Grower, disagreed with the Yugoslavs. He suggested that since the Ellers were Italians the line should be bent to put the farm entirely in Italy. The Yugoslavs refused. After two frustrating hours, Grower ordered a stake driven near the wall of Eller's house...
...Ellers had company. The seven Samec brothers, whose seven houses were clustered in a tight group near Muggia, were horrified to learn that one had been left behind in Yugoslavia after the partition. The expatriated brother promptly picked up his furniture and belongings, abandoned his house and went to live with one of his luckier kinsmen, only to be told next day that there had been an error of 90 feet in the survey. It reinstated Giusto Samec's house in Italy. "I hope this is final," said Giusto, moving back...