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...Russians were directly involved; Field Marshal Alexander's immediate adversaries were Yugoslav Partisans who had tried to seize title to Trieste before Italy's claims could be settled by Big Power negotiation (TIME, May 28). Last week, while negotiations with Marshal Josip Broz (Tito) continued, Alexanders U.S., New Zealand and Indian troops held a line running inland from Trieste deep into Titoland. After visiting this fantastic, front, TIME Correspondent Tom Durrance cabled...
...along the route were small units of Tito's men. Fifteen minutes out of Trieste I saw a convoy of Indian troops moving slowly into the hills, and a few minutes later bumped into a company of Yanks from the 91st Division being directed to new positions by Yugoslav sentries who stood fascinated by the flow of vehicles...
Despite the closeness of large numbers of troops, only one incident occurred during the first two and a half weeks-a group of Tito's men one night jumped an American soldier and stole his rifle. Colonel Rudolph W. Broedlow, commanding the regiment, forbade any retribution. Later, when Broedlow calmly shifted his troops east of the Isonzo River, the Yugoslavs asked how come the Yanks were penetrating "Yugoslav territory." Broedlow said his orders carried him just so far, that was where he was going, and furthermore he hoped the Yugoslavs wouldn't give him any trouble. They didn...
...dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
...Partisan performance of Rigoletto, British and Yugoslav soldiers sat next to each other with Tommy guns resting on their knees. (At a banquet in celebration of Tito's 53rd birthday, British General Sir John Harding, U.S. General William Livesay, and other Allied officers dined & drank with their Partisan "enemies...