British-Yugoslav Disagreements Concerning Carinthia in 1944—1945

Abstract

The report was written for the scientific conference »Yugoslavia in the Final Stage of the Second World War«, which was held in Belgrade on the 10th and 11th of December, 1975. The report is based almost exclusively on diplomatic documents of Foreign Office. The author gives the survey of the cooperation of the Slovene partisans with the S.O.E. in Styria and Carinthia, the proposals for common operations of 200.000 Yugoslav and allied soldiers against the German army in Austria, British proposals at the vvar conference in Yalta for the occupation of Austria by exclusively four countries, and diplomatic notes as vvell as plans of military operations in čase of fight between the allies and the Yugoslav army. The Government of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia agreed, on May 19th, 1945, under the pressure of the British and the Americans, to dravv their troops back to the original Yugoslav-Austrian frontier vvest of Dravograd, but kept them in the Julian March as vvell as in Trieste.