Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tripartite, have decided to woo Tito with the lure of a share in Trieste. In a declaration on October 8, the two powers announced a revision in policy: they will soon withdraw their occupation troops from Zone A, turning that area over to the Italians. The would leave Yugoslavia in control of Zone B and would shift the burden of decision in Trieste from the Allies to Yugoslavia and Italy themselves...
Most solutions presented so far have economic, historic, or ethnic barriers. It is up to the United States and Britain, working at the conference table with Italy and Yugoslavia, to break down as many of these barriers as possible. Often this means compromise not wholly satisfactory to either faction...
...tension mounts, Yugoslavia demands the Free Territory and Italy calls for a winner-take-all plebiscite, a plebiscite the Italians would almost certainly win. Any lasting solution, of course, must be worked out at a meeting of the countries concerned. The United States and Britain, it becomes more clear, will have to establish heir own policy before full-scale bargaining can begin. Such pre-conference agreements must meet certain basic requirements: Triestc must be made a free port, the Zones must not be so completely separated that the trade both sectors require is impossible. And these negotiations must save...
Nobody can say that Marshal Josip Broz, known these days as Tito, President and dictator of Yugoslavia, does not hold elections. Last week Tito held elections. The country's 10 million-odd voters swarmed to 25,000 polling places and elected 282 parliamentary deputies. For 265 of the parliamentary posts there was only one candidate. Tito himself was unopposed...
...Britain might renege' on their Zone A promise, as they had failed to deliver on their 1948 declaration that all Trieste should be Italy's. The Oct. 8 promises had not been carried out because of ugly threats made by Communist Dictator Tito of Yugoslavia, who already holds Zone B and who insistently trumpeted to the world that he would not see Zone A go to Italy without...