Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because he knows the beginner's discouragement in these tedious practice sessions when correction is so necessary, Marion is devoted to retaining their interest. In overtones of Yugoslav he encourage the fumbling novice, "Ya, good! Good!", then pause and adds in a confidential voice, "but next time you must ..." To the clumsy he urges, "be smooth like the violinist--zipp, zipp, zipp!," and compares the unrelaxed fencer to a "medieval knight." His sterner nature emerges with the repeated mistakes of more experienced pupils. Those who become careless may get a sharp rap from his blade...
...Trieste crisis perceptibly eased last week. The Western Big Three in Bermuda made preparations for a five-power Trieste conference (including Italy and Yugoslavia) in Paris. In Rome, following discussions with Yugoslav diplomats, the Foreign Ministry announced that both sides had agreed to "normalize" their frontiers, and would withdraw their armed forces from the border...
Western diplomats could not believe that the Yugoslav dictator dared carry out his threats, but the nagging question would not quite disappear: Would...
Communist Tito stuck firmly to his vow to march into Zone A of the Free Territory of Trieste the moment Italian troops march in to take over from Anglo-American authorities. He continued to build up troop concentrations along the Yugoslav-Italian border, the Zone A border and inside Zone B, which he runs. Not many miles away, on the Italian side, some of Italy's crack military units stood at the ready...
...case anyone in the West, re-examining in turn its Yugoslav alliance, might be led to some unpleasant conclusions or speculations, Vice President Milovan Djilas felt bound to remark: "It is ridiculous of some in the West to say that Yugoslavia will establish relations with the Soviet Union as they once were...