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...strović told his story in halting English. For 25 years he had quietly taught his technique to sculpture students who came from all over the world to his school in Zagreb. In 1938 he finished a work close to his heart: his own house in Split (Spalato), on a promontory overlooking the Adriatic. When Yugoslavia was taken over by the Fascists, Městrović was jailed for pro-Allied sympathies. After four months he was released through the intercession of the Vatican; in Rome, he reciprocated by modeling the Pope. He spent the rest...
...born 53 years ago in the Dalmatian town of Spalato (now the Yugoslav town of Split) but spent his childhood in Lvov. His father was a Polish surgeon in the Austrian Army...
Bombs for Everybody. Twice within a week the Fifteenth attacked the important railway center of Zagreb; other attacks centered on the port of Spalato (Split) and the inland town of Brod, headquarters of a Nazi tank corps. But these jobs were only part of a busy week's work for the Fifteenth Air Force...
After the armistice Captain Barker was in command of the United States Naval Forces in the eastern Mediterranean while at Spalato, Dalmatia, where he was the senior American representative for the arrangement and enforcement of the armistice terms...
...problem given Rommel was tough and thankless, but just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...