Word: yugoslavic
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...Next morning early we were swamped with telephone calls. The British Embassy wanted copies-the Psychological Warfare Branch asked for copies to be distributed to its operators throughout the Balkans-the Yugoslav Legation placed a sizable order for Tito and his staff. Rest camps and hospitals were quick to ask for more, and all hotels in Rome frequented by Fifth Army men on leave sold out in a few hours...
...have not the gentlemen downstairs," asked History, "just agreed to solve the Polish and Yugoslav questions in a friendly fashion...
...started when Richard C. Patterson Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to the exiled Yugoslav Government in London, delivered a U.S. note to 21-year-old King Peter II. On at least two counts this note was historic: 1) it precipitated an unholy international mess; 2) it was the first specific application of the principle laid down by President Roosevelt in his recent state-of-the-nation message (TIME, Jan. 15)-that the U.S. now wants to see that liberated Europe's temporary (or "provisional") governments do not become permanent tyrannies...
There was the stubborn fact of Yugoslavia. If reports were true, when a small British liberating force landed in Dalmatia last November, Marshal Tito disarmed them and threatened them with internment. Then London ordered them to withdraw. Now people close to Tito were talking about a Yugoslav Federation which would include Albania, parts of Greece and Bulgaria...
...Barriers. The Nida River was now an incident in the taking of ancient Cracow, Poland's fourth city and the gateway to southern Silesia and its complex of German industrial cities. At the Nida the Germans had worked six months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida line before...