JUGOSLOVENSKO-BRITANSKI ODNOSI 1948-1952
YUGOSLAV-BRITISH RELATIONS 1948-1952

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the most important questions of the Yugoslav-British relations from 1948 to 1952. Political and economic ties and the question of aid at the time of Yugoslavia’s ideological confrontation with the USSR and other East European countries during the Cominform campaign are analyzed. Topics of particular interest are as follows: the position of the British Labor government at the outbreak of the Yugoslav-Soviet dispute; British policy towards Yugoslavia following the Corean war; the attitude of the conservative government toward Yugoslavia; economic and financial relations; the position of the British government on the question of Trieste and Yugoslav proposals for its solution; British policy on the Balkans, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East; the views of Labor Opposition towards Yugoslav government policy; the attitude toward Yugoslav political emigrants; the question of opening a British consulate in Yugoslavia; attitude toward the British Council; a look at economic and military aid; the question of debt payment and media coverage of international relations. Despite the compromises to which it was forced, the Yugoslav government managed to affirm its own principles regarding the coexistence of countries with different systems based on the mutual respect of such factors as equality, noninterference in the internal affairs of other countries, and action conforming to the principles laid down in the UN Charter.

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