Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second agreement, Yugoslavia and Rumania set up a joint administration for the Iron Gate, a rocky canyon on the Danube where it passes between the two nations. A canal bypasses the gorge...
...Tito's Yugoslavia, 9,000 people queued up in front of the U.S. Information Service building for translations. Budapest's USIS office reported handing out translations at the rate of 50 an hour...
Marshal Tito's relations with royalty, never exactly chummy, came to a blunt and seemingly final halt in 1945, when he told young King Peter, in effect, to stay the blazes out of Yugoslavia or he would chop his royal head off. But last week the marshal slipped into his blue and scarlet commander in chief's uniform, stepped into a cocoon of policemen, Scotland Yard agents and Yugoslav bodyguards, and took himself off to Buckingham Palace for lunch with King Peter's distant cousin, Her Majesty Elizabeth...
...five dashing, bulletproofed days, the Communist dictator of Yugoslavia was the guest of anti-Communist Britain, the first Red chief of state ever to visit the country. For both guest and hosts, it was a visit not of sentiment but of self-interest. The British hoped to exploit Tito's break from Moscow and to fix him solidly in the anteroom of the Western alliance. Tito was out to get political and economic value for his heresy against Moscow...
This need to cut everyone down to size (leveling is its economic equivalent) made the satellite leaders an unlikely source of revolt. Seemingly, there is not a potential Tito in the lot. The man who pulled Yugoslavia out of the Moscow solar system was a Yugoslav hero in his own right; he fought his own battles, liberated his country and built his reputation without need of the bayonets of the Red army. Unlike Tito, the East European satellites have no orbits of their own; they are just the men in Moscow's moons-without popular following in their countries...