Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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OZNA (the Yugoslav equivalent of the Russian NKVD) is busy rounding up collaborators and interrogating suspects. The press is tightly controlled and the courts -on the admission of the Yugoslavs themselves-are sadly in need of reform and reorganization. The affairs of state are rigidly administered by Tito and a few close cronies. Foreign Minister Subasich and others who were added to the Partisan cabinet last March have little real power...
Next afternoon he went up Puget Sound to a famed stretch of salmon water off Anderson Island. No fisherman, the President got into a skiff with a crew of willing advisers: Governor Wallgren; Nick Bez, a burly Yugoslav who operates Alaskan fishing fleets; and Costa Lazzaratti, the Governor's excitable Italian cook. Despite them he hauled in nothing but a sharklike dogfish. But the wind was cool, the day bright, and a nearby fisherman presented him with a 12-lb. king salmon...
Even the smallest bridge or road junction was guarded simultaneously by Yugoslavs and Gurkhas, Yanks or New Zealanders. The Yugoslav command had a lot to learn about Yanks. Yugoslav girl troops often stood guard at one end of a bridge, Yanks at the other. The girls did not stay on their own side very long-gum, candy, and wristwatches were fascinating...
...Children. Trieste harbor is lovely and undamaged. The Kiwis (New Zealanders) park their tanks and trucks on the waterside, and enjoy the surf with Italian girls. In the town itself the streets are patrolled night & day by armed squads of Yugoslavs carrying machine guns and tripods, knives, pistols and clusters of grenades. Most of them are very young; some are only ten or twelve years old. Their tattered uniforms include British battle dress, captured German and Italian hand-me-downs. When not patrolling, most of them ramble around Trieste's downtown districts with their dirty-haired Yugoslav girls...
...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...