Word: yugoslavic
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...Trieste, once more in the world of free men, the three released Americans, Lieut. William Van Atten, Pfc. Glen A. Meyer and Pfc. Earl G. Hendrick Jr., told their story of five days in the Yugoslav shadows...
Tito relaxed his talons, and the three American G.I.s and their mongrel mascot, which had shared their Yugoslav captivity with them, marched back to freedom. The Yugoslavs made the snatch last week while feeling out how far they could bluff the thin line of U.S. troops into bending back the new Yugoslav-Trieste frontier which they were guarding...
With one hand, Tito shoved his U.S. captives across the Trieste frontier. With the other, he sweepingly beckoned six American notables "to visit the Yugoslav frontier of Greece, and such other parts of Yugoslavia as they may deem necessary, to see for themselves what the true situation is." The Americans whom Sava N. Kosanovich, Yugoslavia's Ambassador to Washington, officially invited without prior warning: former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr.; Harold E. Stassen; Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick; John Gunther (Inside U.S.A.); Hanson W. Baldwin, N.Y. Times military analyst and frequent...
...Last week, as the five treaties finally went into effect, and U.S. troops were getting ready to pull out of Italy, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists were talking revolution; Tito's Yugoslav troops were bulging into Trieste and menacingly taking stations along the new Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...
...Government-controlled Fatherland Front: "The new democratic Greek government which will be the center of the Free Greek State . . . presents the only correct and sensible solution of the Greek question." Said Izgrev: "Political circles comment on the meaning attached to last week's departure [from Athens] of the Yugoslav charge and the Soviet Ambassador. It is known that both left without requesting return visas. It is believed that perhaps the Slav countries will recall their diplomatic missions from Athens and will recognize a 'free Greece...