Word: yugoslavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Venable Allen, 49, able Ambassador to Yugoslavia, to be Ambassador to India. Allen went into the foreign service in 1930, after a career as a North Carolina public-school principal and newspaperman (Asheville Times and Durham Herald-Sun), became Ambassador to Iran...
Many pundits believe that the U.S. takes too long to nominate and elect a new President. Nobody could make that charge against Communist Yugoslavia, a dictatorship which is trying harder & harder to assume democratic trappings. One day last week Yugoslavia's Parliament met to select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were...
...time some old complaints, but agreed to join a church-government commission to study religious problems. Tito's propaganda organs claimed that the conference showed the government's "tolerance" of religion. But the Vatican saw it as a first step to ward nationalizing the Catholic Church in Yugoslavia...
...Yugoslavs have not forgotten Nazi brutalities during the war, and West Germany distrusts any Communist regime, however anti-Russian it may be. But trade between the two countries (e.g., German machinery for Yugoslav metals) is flourishing. Last week Bonn announced that Yugoslavia this year would return to Germany 15 German nationals and 150 Volksdeutsche (Yugoslav nationals of German blood) now held in Tito's detention camps. This presumably cleans the slate of all German war prisoners in Yugoslavia...
...cardinals-Yugoslavia's Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac and Poland's Stefan Wyszynski-stayed at home rather than run the risk of being refused readmittance to their countries. By long custom, the Spanish nominees and the papal nuncios to France, Spain, Portugal and Italy would receive their insignia of office from local heads of state...