Word: yugoslavic
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...London last week the European Advisory Commission* worked out the final draft of an armistice for Bulgaria. Under its reported terms the Bulgars must withdraw immediately from Greek and Yugoslav territory in Macedonia and Thrace; pay reparations (amount not yet fixed) to Greece and Yugoslavia; continue fighting their erstwhile ally, Germany; permit the Allies to use Bulgaria for attacking Germany...
Bulgaria capitulated to the Russian Army on Sept. 6. Armistice terms were delayed because: 1) the E.A.C. was too busy with the bigger problem of what to do with Germany; 2) Bulgarians made no move to get out of Yugoslav Macedonia and Greek Thrace, a condition on which Britain insisted. Last week the Bulgars were reported ready to sign...
...meeting finally broke up. Next morning, most of the Russian correspondents who were there flew to the Yugoslav front to witness the junction of the Russians with Tito. The Anglo-American correspondents, as usual, read the Russian papers...
Churchill acted. A shake-up occurred in the Yugoslav Government in Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized Tito as head of his provisional administration inside Yugo slavia. Tito agreed that at war's end Yugo slavs would get a chance to vote for what ever kind of government they wanted. Meanwhile, the King might continue to call himself King...
...Government, called the National Committee of Liberation, was scarcely more Communist than its program. Out of 17 Cabinet officers, five were Communists. Among the nonCommunists: Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka, friend of Czechoslovakia's late, great Thomas Masaryk, onetime Yugoslav Minister to the Vatican; the Rev. Vlado Zecevic, Minister of the Interior (and hence in charge of the police). Minister Zecevic was an Orthodox priest who commanded a detachment of Chetniks until late 1941, when he switched from Mihailovich to Tito...