Word: yugoslavic
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...week's end some 1,400 Italians caught on the Yugoslav side of the new border had transferred their possessions into the Italian zone. "I don't intend to leave Tito so much as a chair," said...
...Yugoslavs on the mixed commission (made up of Yugoslavs, Americans, Britons and some Italian observers) promptly suggested that the line be bent to put the entire Eller farm in Yugoslavia. While a large crowd of kibitzing Italian and Yugoslav peasants looked on, the line-drawers argued it out. The U.S. senior officer present, Major William Grower, disagreed with the Yugoslavs. He suggested that since the Ellers were Italians the line should be bent to put the farm entirely in Italy. The Yugoslavs refused. After two frustrating hours, Grower ordered a stake driven near the wall of Eller's house...
Good Fruit. In Belgrade, where Yugoslav Communists had once trumpeted, "We give our life, but never Trieste!" Marshal Tito reacted with equal grace and calm. "The settlement of the Trieste question," said Tito's Acting Foreign Secretary Ales Bebler, "should be the springboard toward [a] new era in relations." Tito himself spoke warmly of the negotiations that had produced the settlement, paying particular tribute to President Eisenhower for the personal letter which persuaded Tito to give ground and thereby make the settlement possible. The Yugoslav leader added: "With this understanding we are prepared to accept with the greatest pleasure...
...British and Americans let the tumult die down, then tried again last February, this time in private. It was a process of wearing down the touchy Yugoslavs. U.S. Ambassador to Austria Llewellyn Thompson and British Assistant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Harrison got together almost surreptitiously in London to confer with Tito's representative. For four months, Tito's man haggled. The problem was to give Tito slightly more than Yugoslav-occupied Zone B, but so little more that the Italian government would not balk...
...changed. He likes to recall another Labor Party trip he arranged to Yugoslavia, when he spent long hours over rakija with Tito, persuading him to make a break with Moscow. "I have great hopes of this visit to China," he confided. "It could be as historic as was our Yugoslav journey...