Word: bosnia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Experimenting in a communist country offered particular opportunities for interviews with government and religious personnel. Meetings were arranged for the Experimenters with the head of the Communist Party in the province of Bosnia-Hercegovina, with labor and union leaders, with the head of public information and education, with the adviser to the agricultural cooperatives, and with religious officials...
When Tito and his partisans were fighting for their lives against the encircling Germans in the hills of Bosnia, they radioed urgent appeals for help to Moscow. The Kremlin responded, not with guns and medical supplies, but with long, niggling messages on ideological and political matters. Why did Tito call one of his detachments the "Proletariat Brigade"? Could he not just as well fight under his real name of Josip Broz instead of using the conspiratorial nickname of Tito? Later, Stalin was to complain about the Soviet red stars the partisans wore on their caps: "What do you need...
Married. Princess Elisabeth of Luxembourg, 33. blonde elder daughter of Grand Duchess Charlotte; and Prince Franz Ferdinand von Hohenberg, 28, grandson of Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination at Sarajevo, Bosnia, on June 28, 1914, touched off World War I; in Luxembourg...
...this incentive plan has by no means solved Tito's most pressing problem. In Bosnia and Montenegro, the peasants are 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...
American aid to Yugoslavia has been one of our most successful international projects. Money (no strings attached) which has gone into construction in Bosnia and Macedonia and CARE stations for milk and margerine in southern towns have met with wide approval...