Word: yugoslavic
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Backstage, 29-year-old Yugoslav Soprano Daniza Ilitsch, late of a Nazi concentration camp, nervously awaited the call for her first Met performance as Amelia in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. In the pit, a new Italian conductor, Giuseppe Antonicelli, was making his Met debut...
...skirmish one night around the Place de 1'Etoile, in which stands the Arch of Triumph. At 9 p.m. in the Salle Wiagram an organization called "The League for the Rights of Peoples Oppressed by the Soviets" had scheduled a rally at which Polish, Rumanian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Yugoslav refugees would tell what things were like under the Stalinist boot. That morning the Communist paper L'Humanité had summoned the faithful to break up the meeting. "Everyone to the Wagram tonight at 7! Silence to the insulters of the Soviet Union! The way to prevent the meeting...
...fiery President Gabriel González Videla was concerned, the Communists had asked for it. They had struck Chile's coal mines; he had expelled a Yugoslav diplomat on charges of pulling the strings (TIME, Oct. 20). And last week, when his troops were restoring order in the Lota coal fields, 2,000 Communist-dominated last-ditchers barricaded themselves in a mine tunnel and set off dynamite charges in front of advancing Chilean soldiers...
Chile, which first raised the anti-Red cry last fortnight by packing two conniving Yugoslav diplomats out of the country, was reported to be ready to follow...
...next move was Yugoslavia's. Belgrade broke diplomatic relations with Chile, said it could not do business with a country whose foreign policy was dictated by an outside power (meaning the U.S.). Santiago gave it right back, said the break was O.K., pointedly added that the only Yugoslav official in Chile had already left the country...