Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Four's decision to internationalize Trieste and give Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia was a far greater blow to the Italians in Italy than to the Italians in Trieste. Where people can see Tito troops by going a couple of miles to the boundary between Zone A (Anglo-American control) and Zone B (Yugoslav control), patriotism is tempered by practical considerations. Most of the 270,000 Italians in Trieste, after expressing their dislike of Slavs and Communists...
...Nationalism is a fine thing, but a luxury we can no longer afford. Perhaps we will fare better if we are not tied to a defeated Italy, but guided by an international commission-and it may keep out Tito and his Communism...
Flexible Flag. Though he has failed, thus far, to get Trieste, Tito has shown how to make a minority pay off. In all Venezia Giulia there are not enough Communists, Slovene and Italian combined, to win a straight political election. Together they would represent perhaps 20% of the 900,000 population. Nor are there enough Slovenes to win an ethnical plebiscite. They are about 45% of the population; almost all pro-Yugoslav, but much less than half of them Communist...
...Tito had to be flexible enough to unite Italian Communist workers with conservative Slovene farmers. His "nationalistic internationalism" says in the same breath: "Slovenes-unite with your brother Slavs in the new greater powerful Yugoslav fatherland," and "Italians-unite with the new greater international brotherhood of the proletariat-down with nationalism." He even designed a new Italian flag, with a red star in the center of the white stripe, to please the Italian Communists. But in Tito's Zone B, Italian Communists cannot display...
Died. General Draja Mihailovich, 53, leader of Chetnik resistance to Axis armies, former Minister of War in King Peter II's Government in Exile, and its chief representative in Yugoslavia up to March 1944; before a firing squad, after conviction by a Tito court of "treason and collaboration with the enemy...