Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their side. Italy held Trieste until World War II; ethnically, 80% of the city itself is Italian. Since World War II, the port city and 280 square miles of surrounding countryside, coveted by both Italy and Yugoslavia, have been divided into one Western zone (U.S. and British) and one Yugoslav zone of occupation. Their population: roughly 286,000 Italians, 93,000 Slovenes...
...rejects a formula proposed by the Italians, for an "ethnic division" which would give Italy Trieste and the predominantly Italian string of coastal towns to the south. He insists on a corridor to Trieste and use of the port. But Tito needs more economic and military aid. Even the Yugoslavs concede that Trieste itself is and should remain an Italian city. Cooler-headed Italians, in turn, recognize that Trieste depends on Yugoslav and Austrian trade. Beneath the intransigent talk on both sides, then, are ingredients of a settlement if Western diplomats find the will and the imagination...
...Though ill with a circulatory ailment, complained the Yugoslav press, Cardinal Stepinac refuses to leave his remote Croatian village and travel abroad for medical treatment-just as he refused to go to Rome last winter to receive his red hat from the Pope, fearing that Tito would never allow him to return...
...been an Arrow Cross (Nazi) leader up to 1945, switched his allegiance to the Red totalitarians when the Russians marched in. The Communists found him a useful tool, used him to press home distorted charges against such people as Robert Vogeler and Edgar Sanders. Archbishop Joseph Grosz, numerous Yugoslav "spies" and Hungarian "saboteurs." Old soon became known as the "hangman of Budapest." Last week the Communist bosses of Hungary degraded Judge Old along with some 200 other Budapest legal stooges, including the hated.Public Prosecutor J. Domokos. With the new Soviet, peace offensive in full swing, the period of show trials...
...speech last week (on the eleventh anniversary of the Yugoslav air force), Marshal Tito repeated that better relations with Moscow were desirable. Then, as if to reassure the Western powers that he was not going to collapse in Moscow's arms, he heaped praise on the U.S., Britain and even France for help to his country during the war, and angrily denied that any love fest with the Cominform Communists was in sight. "On the frontier still," he said, "their rifles are shooting our guards. Their press is slandering us. If the U.S.S.R. has softened its propaganda, that...