Word: ljubljana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking in Ljubljana, Tito took a new tack in his fight against the Cominform by appealing to leftists and liberals everywhere. In effect, he put his finger publicly on the unmentioned bogey of all Communist organizers: the rooted revulsion of the average man against abandoning his national patriotism and espousing so-called international classism...
...Turkish captain passenger in the U.S. plane, who was wounded by fire from the Yugoslav fighters. The nine crew members (including Captain William Crombie, veteran of 23 supply-drop missions to Tito's forces during the war) and passengers were taken to Yugoslav officers' quarters in Ljubljana. There they were given "everything we asked for except our freedom," questioned repeatedly "on all subjects...
...sister were sent to forced labor in Germany. The private joined the Liberation Movement. When the Allies invaded Sicily, the Germans were using Trieste as an embarkation point for southern Italy. Each day for a month the private and his fellow Partisans cut the German-controlled railroad from Ljubljana to Trieste. The Germans cut down the forest on either side of the right of way, installed high-tension wires, built pillboxes every 500 yards. But the breaks continued, and all that month the Germans had to march their troops the 60 miles to Trieste...
...Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, was cut off from the rest of the country as Italian occupation forces sought to mop up Partisan patriots and restore order...
Italy's other conquest of the week fell even more quietly. As Germany without fuss took what she wanted of Slovenia, Rome announced with nourishes that it had "annexed" the Slovene border city of Ljubljana, set up an "autonomous province of Ljubljana." The Romans pulled out of there in the Fifth Century...