Word: cattaro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn one day last month the British submarine Regent slipped past mine fields into the harbor of Cattaro and ran up her largest white ensign. Much to the surprise of Lieut. Commander Peter Joseph Howell Bartlett, the harbor was full of Italian warships. The commander sent his mate to call on the Italian commanding officer. The mate explained that the Regent had come to look for Britain's Minister to Yugoslavia Ronald Ian Campbell, requested permission to search...
...courteously granted the request. But courtesy did not imply confidence. To make sure that neither side double-crossed the other, it was agreed that an Italian staff officer should board the Regent as an observer-hostage while the British mate was ashore. For nine hours the Regent lay in Cattaro harbor in what an Admiralty report called "this tense but farcical situation." Then two Italian dive-bombers appeared over the harbor, and at this point British and Italian versions of the incident diverged. The Italians said the Regent got the wind up and left. The British said the bombers machine...
Minister Campbell was nowhere near Cattaro. He had rented two busses in Belgrade, filled them with his staff and with those of the Greek, Belgian and Polish legations, and set out, followed by three trucks loaded with luggage and documents. Instead of going to Cattaro, the motorcade proceeded to Gruz, the port for Dubrovnik, 65 miles up the coast. It was waiting on the dock for the submarine to appear when the Italian Army entered the town. Last week the British had a tale to tell about the daring of the Regent, but the Italians had the Minister...
...correspondents is not yet known. They are A.P.'s Robert St. John, U.P.'s Leon Kay, the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, the New York Times's Ray Brock, and Leigh White of CBS and Overseas News Agency. When last heard of (at Cattaro, April 16), they were heading into the Adriatic in a rowboat, presumably bound for Greece...
Strategy. The headlines pounded with the rich, twisty Balkan names: Zagreb, Cattaro, Salonika, Ljubljana. But the President and his counselors had to watch the whole enormous scene in a world where the U.S. was a fulcrum, balancing Britain in the Western scale with Chungking in the East...