The British and the American Policy Concerning-the Yugoslav-Italian Frontier During the World War II

Abstract

Paper presented at the Round-Table of the American and Yugoslav Historians in Plitvice, Yugoslavia, August 4th-6th 1980: The author analyses the origin and repercussions of the British verbal guarantees to the royal Yugoslav government in 1941 that the British government, on the Peace Conference, woulds support Yugoslav demand for revision of the Yugoslav-Italian frontier. The author mentions the scepticism of President Roosevelt as for the expedience of such a guarantee, and the restoration of Yugoslavia on the whole, Stalin's suggestions in 1941, and the restraint of the British policy towards the demands for revision of the frontier so by the royal government as by the National Liberation Movement. The author describes the resistance of Marshal Tito, who didn't want Yugoslavia to be involved in the policy of the spheres of interest.