Yugoslav and British Policies in Connection with the Carinthian Question, 1941— 1945

Abstract

The report was written for the second round-table conference of British and Yugoslav historians at Kupari, Sept. 19th—21st, 1978, and it deals with the problems in connection with the Yugoslav and Austrian frontier as well as the military aims of the national liberation struggle and of its opponents. The author reveals and analyses Yugoslav and British co-operation as well as misunderstandings in connection vvith the penetration to Austria from the year 1943 onwards; he also analyses the relations between the Communist parties of Yugoslavia and Austria, the standpoints and the policy of the Comintern (at that time already dissolved). At the beginning the sources and the main bibliography are listed. The author states that the old ideal of the United Slovenia was realized only few days after the last partisan gun was shot.