J. F. Dulles and Tito

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 9 19:18:21 PDT 1999


Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:


>On page 482 of "The Prize" by Daniel Yergin, it is stated that John Foster
>Dulles and Eisenhower approved of foreign aid for Tito in the Summer of
>1956. That same summer came the famous dispute with Nasser over the Aswan
>damn, along with the manipulations of the Sterling by the US Government, to
>stop the British-French "seizure' of the Suez. Does anyone have any
>historical data on US aid to Yugoslavia during the 50's-60's which would
>provide background for some of Dr. Chussodovsky's recent history?

I was just paging through Cheryl Payer's old Monthly Review book on the World Bank. She's got a whole chapter in there on U.S/WB "aid" to Yugoslavia starting in the 1950s. If I have some time in the next few days I'll scan in a few pages.

Doug



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