Word: dubrovnik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after, the new Yugoslav delegation was installed. Its chief, a towering Dalmatian Partisan captain, Jaksa Dubrovnik, stalked into the office of the Allied Advisory Council. Thumping his chest, he announced to U.S. Captain Steve Riggio his assumption of power, in the only three English words he knew: "Yugoslav delegation...
...just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...
...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...
...Ankara, a 4,768-ton freighter whose home port is Bremen, one of 28 German ships that holed up in Trieste when war began, last month ran down to Dubrovnik (better known to tourists as Ragusa), loaded, then lay for days while Belgrade hemmed & hawed. The Germans asked for a naval escort through Yugoslavia's neutral waters, hoping to establish a system whereby Nazi freighters could ply all around the neutral Balkan peninsula from Russia's Black Sea oil ports. But Yugoslavs had no wish to offend the Allies...