Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his fellow Communist leaders, Stalin was also reasonable-in the same way. Making it clear to Tito that he had agreed to share Yugoslavia as a sphere of influence with the British, he asked that King Peter be reinstated: "You need not restore him forever," he told Tito. "Take him back temporarily, and then you can slip a knife into his back at a suitable moment." His agents had reported Tito's partisans flourishing red stars. "What do you need the red stars for?" he asked Tito. "You are frightening the British. The form isn't important...
...further the industrial revolution in Yugoslavia, the World Bank last week gave Communist Marshal Tito a $30 million loan. The loan will include no dollars, but it will be the biggest mixture of European currencies ever passed in one package by the World Bank-some $10 million in French francs, $7,500,000 in Swiss francs, the rest in British pounds, Belgian francs, German marks, Austrian schillings, Italian lire, Dutch guilders, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor...
...expected to boost Yugoslav industrial output by at least 30%. Examples: production capacity for iron ore should go up by 900,000 tons, pig iron by 260,000 tons, steel ingots by 275,000 tons, finished steel products by 195,000 tons. Most of the things Yugoslavia needs to buy can be bought from European countries and her trade pattern makes it easier to pay back in European currencies. "We like to make loans that are going to be paid back," explained World Bank President Eugene R. Black...
...full member of NATO, Greece is about to sign mutual-defense pacts with a friendly Turkey and Yugoslavia...
...Barry, along with a friend, got out of Oflag VII C all right, completely outsmarting their German keepers by using the classic tunnel scheme. Theirs was one of the first World War II escapes on record, and almost everything about it worked fine. They had got halfway to Yugoslavia when they were surrounded by a patrol. The next day they were back in Oflag VII C again...