Word: yugoslavic
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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...
...Trieste last week U.S. and New Zealand troops played soccer with their Yugoslav comrades-in-arms, swam with them in the warm Adriatic, laughed together at British films shown through Yugoslav projectors...
...spots in Europe where trouble between allies brewed. Trieste for a time was closest to actual battle. After Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander issued a blistering statement denouncing Marshal Tito's occupation of the city, New Zealand troops followed the Yugoslav example and went about the streets with automatic rifles. North of Trieste Tito withdrew some troops to the defensible line of the Isonzo river (see map). The Yugoslavs moved their main headquarters back from Trieste, but showed no sign of relaxing their grip on the city. Lest it be cut off in case of fighting...
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...