Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Farmhouses & Gardens. The talks were private. By last week the Anglo-American negotiators had traversed half the hard ground to a meeting of minds between Italy and Yugoslavia. Tito's representatives had now tentatively accepted the Anglo-American plan; the next step would be to take it up with Italy. The secrecy was designed to prevent either side from claiming prematurely it had got the best of the deal. The secrecy had been fairly well honored, except for two conspicuous leaks by Tito to newsmen...
...plan is essentially the same as that proposed publicly by the U.S. and Britain last Oct. 8, which had set off patriotic protests first in Yugoslavia and then in Italy...
...Yugoslavia would get title to Zone...
which it already occupies. Yugoslavia and landlocked Austria would get access to the port of Trieste...
...Yugoslavs also wanted the U.S. to build them a new port, to compensate them for the permanent loss of the city of Trieste, perhaps in Yugoslavia's Zone B, but preferably far to the south, at Bar (Antivari) on the Albanian border, which would be of more strategic use in case of a war with Russia. The U.S. opposed that, suggested giving Tito access to facilities in Trieste...