Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already there are signs of Nazi underground activity. Salzburg streets throng with a motley array of hikers in lederhosen and rucksacks, sunburned Wehrmachters still wearing parts of uniforms, soldiers in Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav, Italian and other uniforms with doubtful political loyalties-a mélange which has made good hunting for the Army's Counterintelligence Corps. To deal with such a situation requires both a firm, coherent policy and a well-directed administration. So far we have lacked both...
...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...
...Friends. I Jeeped up a secondary road well within Yugoslav territory. At the first Yugoslav roadblock about two miles north of Trieste, I was stopped by a group of 20 or 30 men. One of them, a big, bearded character loaded down with grenades and ammunition belts, demanded my pass. I had none, but fished out my typewritten permit to eat at the British officers' mess in Trieste. The Yugoslav examined it carefully for about 30 seconds, broke into a black-toothed grin, said the equivalent of okay, snapped the neatest salute I have ever seen, and waved...
Shadows Before. Trieste trouble had been coming a long time. Some Italian Communists and non-Communists in the Trieste underground broke with Tito's Partisans as early as last September, rather than fall in with Partisan plans to include Trieste in a Yugoslav federation. Britain and the U.S. were committed when they signed the Italian armistice: that document bound them and Italy to postpone the Trieste issue until the peace conference. Russia, signing later, legally accepted the same understanding...
...accounted a nonentity in the Moscow diplomatic picture. However, there are indications that his status has altered. When Marshal Tito visited Moscow, the Mongolian envoy was invited to greet him at the airport by the protocol department of the Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and was introduced to the Yugoslav leader by Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov...