Word: slovenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion was the Seventh Congress of the Yugoslav Communist Party, held at Ljubljana, the bustling, Austrian-flavored capital of Slovenia. What got the Soviet back up was the draft program proposed by the Yugoslavs, which contained 1) the suggestion that the military blocs of both East and West are responsible for current world tensions, and 2) the hint that the Soviet Union, rather than "international capitalism," represents a threat to the Independence of the smaller Communist nations. In Moscow the Soviet magazine Kommunist angrily demanded extensive changes...
Oranges & Scuffles. After feting them for two days at his modern villa in Brioni, Tito sent the top Russians off on a tour of Croatia and Slovenia. Khrushchev flabbergasted his hosts by cracking bad jokes, swilling quarts of lemonade from a pitcher-sized glass, gnawing on an orange as voraciously as a dog with a bone. When a flat tire halted his car, he playfully challenged 59-year-old Anastas Mikoyan to a wrestling match. Yugoslavs looked on incredulously while Russia's 61-year-old Communist Party boss scuffled with his First Deputy Premier by the roadside. Mikoyan...
Frank Lausche, Ohio's first Roman Catholic governor, whose parents emigrated from Slovenia to Cleveland, has long had his eye on the White House. If he gets there, it will be surprising: no man of Eastern European stock and no Catholic has been President; Andrew Jackson was the only President whose parents were both born abroad (in Ireland...
...reluctant to make the long and costly trek to the cities; and those who are attracted by new industrial centers often return home because the factories tend to expand too quickly while raw material sources remain meagre or distant. The larger deposits of coal and iron in Serbia and Slovenia, however, have made a speedier development of heavy industry there possible...
Lubiana, a modern city in Slovenia, is bustling with activity. While eating breakfast there, a doctor sat at my table, the only available place. After introduction, he spoke to me in low tones, in French. "Why are you sending aid to Yugoslavia?" "Well, you must realize its strategic importance for us," I replied. He shrugged his shoulders. "Yes, but you don't expect anything from it, do you?" The doctor had been a political prisoner and was still under surveillance. It was his way of expressing hostility towards the regime. Feelings towards Tito range from outright reverence to doubt...