Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radio blossomed with demands for "a serious reconsideration" of Yugoslavia's conditions for a settlement. "Italy," snapped the official newspaper Borba, "is completely disqualified as a partner to whom it is worth making concessions." With fanfare, it was announced that Tito himself was about to reveal brand-new Yugoslav demands...
...been to make believe that the Trieste issue was not there at all. But the new Italian government of Premier Giuseppe Pella took the hints to mean the worst-that Tito was preparing for outright annexation of Zone B, the southern half of the territory, which has been in Yugoslav control since World War II. From Rome went orders to the army and navy: two to three divisions of Italian troops along the Yugoslav border were put on the alert, and a cruiser and two torpedo boats were dispatched to Venice, just across the Adriatic from Trieste...
...Anatoly Lavrentiev, 49. When he went to Belgrade as ambassador in 1946, Marshal Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked Foreign Minister Molotov: "Why have you sent us such a stupid ambassador?" Replied Molotov: "Lavrentiev may be stupid, but he is a very good Bolshevik.") When Lavrentiev came to Iran as ambassador only five weeks ago, the Communists were riding high, and Moscow seemed...
...events refused to stay quiet. The Yugoslav news agency announced that, because of "the unconstructive attitude of Rome," Tito's government was in a mood to do something about Trieste. This might mean that Tito plans to annex the Yugoslav-occupied Zone B of the Free Territory of Trieste, in which Italy has staked out sizable claims...
...summoned the diplomatic representatives of the U.S., Britain and France to tell them that Italy would not "stand idly by." Next, Pella, who is his own Foreign Minister, fired off a note to Belgrade warning against any "ill-considered and irresponsible act." Italy alerted all its troops on the Yugoslav frontier and canceled all furloughs. Yugoslavia announced nervously that it really has no mischievous designs on Trieste...