Word: yugoslavic
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...years ago Party Philosopher Djilas dared to criticize the political rigidity of the Yugoslav Communist Party and the loose morals of its hierarchy. He called for a "democratic-socialist" party to contest Tito's one-party rule. Thus Djilas brought Tito's wrath down on his head, lost his party rank and privileges. His punishment might have been worse. The fact that it was not probably stems from Tito's desire to stay on good terms with the social democratic parties of Western Europe: British Socialists, among others, urged Tito to go easy on Djilas...
...Angry Reply. Tito passed the letter over to Party Propagandist Veljko Vlahovic, and in the party newspaper Borba Vlahovic gave it the heavy ironic treatment. Yugoslavs, he said, resent Phillips' "attitude of a tutor," and if the subject is humane administration, the "Yugoslav public (not only our Orthodox Church) is very dissatisfied with the deportation of Makarios, to say nothing of the hanging of people on Cyprus or ... the shootings in Kenya...
...Yugoslav-born Ivan Mestrovic, 72, the Gold Medal for Sculpture, at the Joint Ceremonial of the National Institute and American Academy of Arts and Letters, as the leading U.S. sculptor of religious subjects...
...Tito and his Junoesque wife arrived at the Bois de Boulogne Station in their special blue and silver armor-plated train, all known anti-Titoist refugees in Paris were placed under surveillance. The most ardent of them were rounded up, along with a motley crew of anarchists, royalists, diehard Yugoslav Catholics and Cominform Communists, and shipped off to Corsica for a week's vacation-food, wine and sightseeing-at France's expense. A small army of about 15,000 police, plainclothesmen, helmeted Gardes Republicaines and firemen were deployed over Paris to help keep the peace. Along the route...
Neither, many a Parisian agreed, had Paris itself, not even in the dark days when Adolf Hitler came to town as a conqueror. While the Yugoslav dictator and his official hosts swept freely along cleared boulevards in the city, the plain citizens of Paris found their own progress blocked at every turn. Never smooth flowing, the city's traffic became a nightmare of confusion as main thoroughfares were blocked off for hours at a time...