Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italians got Trieste following the first World War, lost it in the second. Eight years ago, however, to influence crucial elections, the Western "Big Threee" promised the return of the Trieste area, with its predominantly Italian population. A few months later, when Yugoslavia made its historic switch, what had seemed a smooth propaganda move became a diplomatic nightmare...
...said he was a mechanic and looked as if he might be, signed the register at Istanbul's Continental Hotel as Spiridon Yanko Mekas. Mekas, who had just returned from Moscow on a Canadian passport, loafed around the lobby for nearly three months before he went on to Yugoslavia to make history under a different alias: Tito. Last week Marshal Tito-preceded by 200 armed bodyguards -returned to Istanbul for the first time since he checked out of the Continental 14 years...
...talks were informal, to the point, and fruitful. Before the week was out, Tito's Foreign Secretary Koca Popovic announced that Yugoslavia and Turkey had agreed, "in principle," on a three-nation Balkan military alliance. Greece, left out of the week's talks, protested that the agreement had been reached without consulting her, but the Little Three's Big Two were confident that their junior partner's ruffled feathers would be smoothed out when Tito visits Athens shortly...
Communist has found, like Branko, that life as a party member is not all slivovitz and skittles. The Zagreb congress officially decreed that henceforth, the prime mission of Yugoslavia's Communists was not to command but to persuade. In one swoop it sent down the drain the hopes of all those who had joined the party in search of prestige, power and patronage. Today a good Tito Communist is expected not only to tread the delicate ideological line between Russian Stalinism and Western capitalism, but to spend a good part of his time attending ward meetings, canvassing his neighbors...
...pleasantly domestic scene, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, in mufti, and his pretty young (29) wife Jovanka, an ex-Partisan sharpshooter, were photographed strolling with their dog in a snow-mantled park behind their home in Belgrade...