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Word: istria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note specified the Canale river valley, the region of Goriza, Venetian Slovenia, Montfalcone, Trieste and the northwestern section of Istria as areas which should have been taken away from Italy and given to Yugoslavia

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allies Sign Peace Pacts in Paris; New Palestine Strife Imminent; Churchill Attacks 'Coalition' Rule | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

...city's suburbs. To the northeast lies D'Annunzio's Fiume. Italy after the last war presented the peacemakers with a fait accompli by seizing Fiume. Tito last week followed D'Annunzio's gaudy example and bid for permanent possession of Trieste and all Istria, which would greatly enhance the Mediterranean position of the states grouped around Russia. Britain reacted as she must wherever her Mediterranean control is threatened. The U.S. Government, acknowledging its common interest, reacted with Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Danger in Trieste | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...headquarters came a low answering growl: "Trieste and Gorizia . . . were, after bloody struggles, liberated by Yugoslav Army forces. . . . Certain Allied forces have, without our permission, entered [these] towns, which might have undesirable consequences unless the matter is promptly settled by mutual agreement." Cried the Yugoslav Communist paper, Naprijed, "Istria and Trieste are ours and they will remain ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Trouble Spot | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

Already aging Dr. Josip Smodlaka, Tito's Foreign Minister, had exchanged sharp words with Italy's Count Carlo Sforza over Yugoslav claims to Trieste, Istria, Gorizia, awarded to Italy after World War I (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Power | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Italy's empire seemed about to fall apart. Marshal Josip Broz Tito was doggedly pushing Yugoslavia's claim to Trieste, Fiume, Istria. (In the U.S. last week appeared Yugoslavia and Italy, a pamphlet quoting Marshal Tito, his Foreign Commissioner Dr. Josip Smodlaka and others, urging the Yugoslav claims.) In Athens, the Greeks demanded, and with British help would likely get, the Dodecanese Islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Going, Going . . . | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

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