Word: yugoslavic
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Last week, King Peter decided to hold his crown on with both hands. Without notifying the British, Russian, U.S., or even the Yugoslav Government of Premier Ivan Subasich, he issued a royal communiqué to the British press, announced that he would not accept a regency while his subjects were voting on the question of his return to Belgrade...
...very embarrassing for Palmiro Togliatti, Communist leader and No. 2 man (Vice Premier) in Italy's Bonomi Government. Marshal Tito, Communist leader and No. 1 man in the Yugoslav Government, was again eyeing Trieste and Fiume. In London last week his Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka filed claim to the two Italian cities (both still occupied by the Germans). In Rome, Allied observers agreed: no Italian Government could survive the loss of Trieste...
...revival of the week was the old story about the diva who was ill and the understudy who stepped in at the last minute and scored a hit. It happened at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House: the diva was bosomy Yugoslav Soprano Zinka Milanov; the understudy, a wispy, 22-year-old New Yorker named Regina Resnik...
Shortly after, the new Yugoslav delegation was installed. Its chief, a towering Dalmatian Partisan captain, Jaksa Dubrovnik, stalked into the office of the Allied Advisory Council. Thumping his chest, he announced to U.S. Captain Steve Riggio his assumption of power, in the only three English words he knew: "Yugoslav delegation...
Miloje Smiljanich, career diplomat in King Peter's Government and head of the Yugoslav delegation to the Allied Advisory Council in Rome, was at lunch in delegation quarters. Suddenly Marshal Tito's aging (75) Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka confronted him. Curtly Smodlaka told Smiljanich to have the full delegation staff on hand at 3 p.m. next...