Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly a month had passed since the U.S. and Britain announced their plan to break the eight-year-old deadlock over Trieste. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia was expected to boil with anger, and he did. But he was also expected to calm down and resign himself grudgingly to the Allies' fait accompli. The disquieting fact last week was that Tito showed little sign of calming down...
...conservative journals, the Anglo-American plan was under stiff attack on the grounds that it had been badly handled, and hastily sprung, even though the Foreign Office insists that as long as a year ago, Marshal Tito had indicated to Anthony Eden that partition of the Trieste territory between Yugoslavia and Italy would be acceptable to him. Clement Attlee and his Labor Party forced the House of Commons into scheduling a debate on Trieste. Worried that the Laborites would lean to Tito's side,* the leader of Italy's non-Communist Socialists, Giuseppe Saragat-with Premier Pella...
...Policy of Confidence." Pella's Foreign Ministry, determined to be reasonable, notified the Big Three powers that it was willing to withdraw its troops from the border regions if Yugoslavia would do the same. "Obviously hypocritical," replied Belgrade...
...case anyone in the West, re-examining in turn its Yugoslav alliance, might be led to some unpleasant conclusions or speculations, Vice President Milovan Djilas felt bound to remark: "It is ridiculous of some in the West to say that Yugoslavia will establish relations with the Soviet Union as they once were...
...quiet suburb of Paris, Yugoslavia's former Queen Alexandra, 32, opened a letter from her husband, exiled King Peter. Reading the King's firm refusal to drop his divorce suit, Alexandra drew blood from one wrist with a penknife, later declared she would have finished the job if, just then, her aunt, Greece's Queen Frederika, had not phoned. When Peter heard how his wife had been saved by the bell, he growled: "This is the fourth time . . . It's nothing serious...