Word: subasich
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Approval by Moscow. With this plan in his pocket, British-supported Dr. Subasich flew, not to London for the approval of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, but to Moscow for Stalin's O.K. After three days of Kremlin conferences, Stalin approved. Said the official Soviet communiqué: "The Soviet Government welcomes Marshal Tito's and Prime Minister Subasich's efforts to unite all truly democratic national forces . . . and to create a democratic, federative Yugoslavia...
Minister Lie was preceded by two other callers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito and Premier Ivan Subasich. After a round of conferences they hopped back to Belgrade to open Yugoslavia's first Assembly of National Liberation...
...have a "very good working agreement about all these countries, singly and in combination." But the nature of this agreement was specified only in the case of Yugoslavia. "We are in fact acting jointly-Russia and Britain -in our relations with both the Royal Yugoslav Government, headed by Dr. Subasich, and with Marshal Tito, and we have invited them by joint message to ... a conference between them both at Napies." This statement could not be considered apart from the joint Churchill-Stalin statement issued from Moscow: "The right of the Yugoslav people to settle their future constitution for themselves after...
Churchill acted. A shake-up occurred in the Yugoslav Government in Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized Tito as head of his provisional administration inside Yugo slavia. Tito agreed that at war's end Yugo slavs would get a chance to vote for what ever kind of government they wanted. Meanwhile, the King might continue to call himself King...
...harassed King said that he wanted a "neutral" government, i.e., one composed of men supporting neither Tito nor Mihailovich. To form such a cabinet, he summoned Ivan Subasich, onetime Governor of Croatia, a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, who had recently lived in the U.S. Handsome, hardy Dr. Subasich was flatly anti-Mihailovich, pro-Tito. His assignment was tough. Its success depended on Russian approval, since Tito would surely look to Moscow for guidance...