Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wartime days as a partisan fighter against the Nazis, Dedijer watched his first wife die in combat at his side, and was so shot up himself that a large part of his skull is surgical silver. After the war he edited the official party newspaper, Borba, sat in the Yugoslav delegation in the U.N., and generally proved himself one of the most promising of the brash and brave young revolutionaries. He eloquently supported Tito's break with Stalin in 1948. His official biography of Tito so closely reflects Tito's thoughts that it reads more like the dictator...
...undemocratic forces." With another party and free discussion permitted, Djilas thought that "in ten years perhaps, possibilities for political democracy will develop." He was taking a risk, he admitted, in being so outspoken. "However, I think that nothing bad will happen." Djilas' proposals were not reported to the Yugoslav people, which made it a little difficult for his second-party movement to get off the ground...
...since his heretical remarks would be read by the Communist leaders, they posed a dramatic question: Would Yugoslav Communism now have to begin eating its own children...
Medals Jangling. As Marshal Tito sailed into Bombay Harbor on the Caleb, an ex-Italian minelayer, three Indian and two Yugoslav destroyers played escort. Tito, wearing his marshal's grey uniform with medals jangling on the chest, beamed as he was buried in a garland of roses. Said he in English: "I like...
...land boasts no D'Artagnan, but it has its own loose version of the Three Musketeers, a dissimilar threesome who feel a need to share their lonesomeness. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu have, as one leading Yugoslav diplomat insists, "a similarity of outlook on present international developments...