Relations with Yugoslavia

Archive Report

American Support of Communist Yogoslavia

Aid in Electring Yogoslavia to U. N. Security Council

American support last month of Yugoslavia's candidacy A for a seat on the United Nations Security Council reaffirmed alike the importance attached by the State Department to Marshal Tito's quarrel with the Cominform and the determination of the United States to neglect no opportunity to strengthen resistance to Soviet dictation in Eastern Europe. The American action in the United Nations was the more conspicuous in that it was not accompanied by parallel British action. Great Britain voted for the Soviet-backed candidate, Czechoslovakia, but the support of the United States won for Yugoslavia the two-thirds General Assembly majority necessary for election as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.1

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