Word: yugoslavic
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...face that Yugoslavia's Communist Boss Tito turned toward his erstwhile big brothers in the Kremlin was beaming more amiably. For a month or more, Yugoslav relations with the Soviet bloc had apparently been growing warmer-warmer than at any time since Tito broke with the Cominform nearly five years ago. The Yugoslav charge d'affaires in Moscow had been personally received by Foreign Minister Molotov, an unheard-of courtesy. Moscow was sending an envoy with the rank of minister to Belgrade, and an exchange of ambassadors was rumored. Criticism of Yugoslavia in the Russian press had almost...
Until recently, satellite shipping moved through Yugoslavia, but Tito's ships were constantly harassed by Rumanian officials at the gate. Then Tito blocked satellite traffic on the Yugoslav side. At the same time, he tested the Kremlin by inviting Rumania to set up a joint-control board...
...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...
Books & Dogs. Near the end of his visit, Tito got down to business at No. 10 Downing Street with Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The man from Belgrade wanted a Yugoslav-British treaty pledging friendship or mutual assistance in case of aggression. Winston Churchill smoothly explained that Britain could not take such a step until Tito had settled his bad relations with Italy (over Trieste). But the two leaders had no trouble striking a strong verbal contract...
...specific news of each scheduled event was blacked out until it was over. Scotland Yard's Special Branch issued detailed instructions to its security forces only at the last minute, and then not by phone but by messenger. Chief constables throughout Britain were ordered to report on all Yugoslavs in their areas; special officers, working with the Yugoslav embassy, guarded all suspected individuals-monarchists, anti-Titoists, crackpots and Communists-according to "danger value...