Word: gorizia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tight spot. Comrade Tito's government fumed; a formal Yugoslav note denounced the Western proposal as serving only "chauvinist hatred." Next day Yugoslav Foreign Minister Stanoje Simitch announced more calmly that, as far as he was concerned, the Italians could have Trieste-but only in exchange for Italian Gorizia. It was not much of an offer...
...extreme. He asked a G.I. in Italy last week if he had an Italian girl friend. When the G.I. hesitated, then answered "No, sir," Ike grinned and said: "The Army has gone to hell." He stated the dream of peace in strictly G.I. language to soldiers at Gorizia: "We are so friendly we do not want to fight any more. We do not want anything to interfere with the World Series." He told reporters in Berlin that he felt there was too much pessimistic talk in the world, pointed to the Allied Control Council as proof that the wartime Allies...
Throughout Venezia Giulia, the Communists are campaigning against the Church. Recently both the Bishop of Trieste and the Archbishop of Gorizia have been stoned on the steps of their cathedrals...
...Very Poor Situation." Gorizia is headquarters for a regiment of the U.S. 91st Infantry Division, and is also a large Yugoslav military center. Later I went with other correspondents to see the Yugoslav commissar for Gorizia, whose offices were in the town's swankiest building. Ushered in with snappy saluting, we discovered an educated young man. However, when he learned the purpose of our visit-to get his reaction to the penetration of his lines-he quickly excused himself, and sent in eight bottles of beer. With the beer came an older, baldheaded, bug-eyed captain, who obviously...
...Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting, the one U.S. battalion in the city withdrew toward the main U.S. force at Gorizia. The New Zealanders remained, their tanks patrolling streets commanded by Yugoslav artillery. In the harbor lay three British warships...