Word: yugoslavs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fierce propaganda war between the Cominform and Tito, a Yugoslav newspaper last week found a new way to laugh at Soviet Russia. Zagreb's Naprijed took a look at a recent issue of Pravda, and reported that Stalin's name had appeared on Page One a total of 101 times. In addition to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin or Comrade Stalin (68 times), he was the "great leader" (ten times), "dear and beloved Stalin" (seven times) and "great Stalin" (six times). Other variations: "great leader of entire mankind," "Stalin the genius," "protagonist of our victories," "faithful fighter for the cause...
Tito is still a little, lonely heretic in the broad expanse of Communism. He has long looked wistfully for signs of a big fellow-dissenter in China. Even Tito's men saw the point. Last week Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj qualified the Review of International Affairs with the comment: Chinese and Russian rivalry was merely "a germ of controversy...
Washington cocktail-bibbers set out for the four-story, grey stone Yugoslav embassy in delighted throngs one night last week to attend a party celebrating the sixth year of Tito's rule. It seemed certain to produce gossip. If Tito provided the sumptuous buffet usual at such affairs, the guests could not only eat well, but make ironic asides about the Yugoslav famine. If the table was bare, they could at least have the spartan pleasure of watching high U.S. officials-who had accepted in droves-struggling to be polite while hungry...
...third time in two weeks, Harry Truman found a way to help Tito's famine-threatened Yugoslavia. From the North Atlantic defense funds the President took $16 million to help feed 32 Yugoslav divisions, arguing that it "will contribute . . . to the security of the North Atlantic area...
...work studying the Bible. In the chapel at the rear of the house, a music class was in progress; a Berliner was at the piano, an English girl played the viola; a boy from Silesia whittled away at the violin. In a small side room a pink-cheeked Yugoslav and a chubby Hollander were boning up on the Epistles. The International Bible Training Institute was beginning its fourth year...