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...Stabilization of the Balkans, including satisfaction of Italy's claims against Greece (TIME, Aug. 26), and probably a division of Yugoslavia to give Italy the Dalmatian coast - unless Germany was insisting on an Adriatic outlet. Axis stabilization means Axis domination, and Hitler's Walrus and Mussolini's Carpenter had no oysters to spare for Joseph Stalin. That was one reason for the secrecy that clothed last week's conversations...
...same time Il Duce's newspapers recalled that Italy had been ejected from Corfu by the League of Nations, that Macedonia had once been a part of the Roman Empire, that the Dalmatian Coast of Yugoslavia had once belonged to the Republic of Venice. Il Duce's probable objective: to force Greece's Premier-Dictator John Metaxas and Yugoslavia's Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch to go to Rome for an "Italian Salzburg," at which Albania (as nominee for Italy) would get Dalmatia and at least a part of Epirus, Bulgaria would get a corridor to the Aegean...
...Harris' eight-minute work, which he called Challenge 1940, had been commissioned by Conductor Artur Rodzinski -a U. S. citizen, born of Polish parents on the Dalmatian coast. Last week Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave Challenge 1040 its first performance, in a concert which brought 13,000 people to the open-air Lewisohn Stadium in Manhattan. The concert was dedicated to Democracy. Aside from two democratic Czech pieces, the program was 100% American. It made good listening...
Nevertheless, Italian concentrations were reported on the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia. If he dared push into the French Riviera, Mussolini was in danger of being disastrously squeezed...
Yugoslavia had much to fear. Italy eyed the Dalmatian Coast, and a formidable fifth column was operating inside the country. On the heels of the arrest of onetime Premier Milan Stoyadinovich (TIME, April 29), police last week clapped into jail a onetime police chief of Belgrade, Milan Achimovich. Slovene Nationalists issued a manifesto attacking Germany and Italy, which the Italian press promptly blamed on Allied intrigue. A Yugoslav trade commission reached Moscow and presumably talked also about diplomatic recognition of and by the big Slav brother. But Italy and Germany were on Yugoslavia's doorstep and Russia...