Word: smodlaka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...very embarrassing for Palmiro Togliatti, Communist leader and No. 2 man (Vice Premier) in Italy's Bonomi Government. Marshal Tito, Communist leader and No. 1 man in the Yugoslav Government, was again eyeing Trieste and Fiume. In London last week his Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka filed claim to the two Italian cities (both still occupied by the Germans). In Rome, Allied observers agreed: no Italian Government could survive the loss of Trieste...
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...
Miloje Smiljanich, career diplomat in King Peter's Government and head of the Yugoslav delegation to the Allied Advisory Council in Rome, was at lunch in delegation quarters. Suddenly Marshal Tito's aging (75) Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka confronted him. Curtly Smodlaka told Smiljanich to have the full delegation staff on hand at 3 p.m. next...
Promptly at 3, Smodlaka's black limousine drew up. Behind it a truck disgorged 35 Partisan soldiers, each with Tommy...
...Said Smodlaka to Smiljanich and his staff: "Those of you who are not diplomats will enroll with the Partisans. None of you need set foot in here again." Smiljanich and his staff looked at the Tommy guns, silently filed...