Word: smodlaka
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Government, called the National Committee of Liberation, was scarcely more Communist than its program. Out of 17 Cabinet officers, five were Communists. Among the nonCommunists: Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka, friend of Czechoslovakia's late, great Thomas Masaryk, onetime Yugoslav Minister to the Vatican; the Rev. Vlado Zecevic, Minister of the Interior (and hence in charge of the police). Minister Zecevic was an Orthodox priest who commanded a detachment of Chetniks until late 1941, when he switched from Mihailovich to Tito...
...route to London was another Yugoslav: Tito's Foreign Minister, Josip Smodlaka, whom Churchill had summoned to the same conference. Three weeks ago the British leader had called Tito an "outstanding leader," said, regretfully, that Peter's War Minister, Mihailovich, had trafficked with the enemy. Recently, too, Captain Randolph Churchill, the Prime Minister's son, had parachuted into Tito's mountain headquarters...