BLISKI ISTOK 1940. GODINE U IZVJEŠTAJIMA GENERALNOG KONZULA KRALJEVINE JUGOSLAVIJE U JERUSALEMU
THE NEAR EAST IN THE YEAR 1940 (FROM THE REPORTS OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL OF KINGDOM OF YUGOSLAVIA IN JERUSALEM)

Summary/Abstract: The text was written based on the available documents of the Consulate General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kingdom of Yugoslavia in Jerusalem (Palestine). The reports are signed by the Yugoslav general counsel Ivo De Guilli, present his own views of the Near East circumstances in the year 1940. This paper is a continuation of my writing: “Palestine of the Thirties in the General Consulate, Kingdom of Yugoslavia documents in Jerusalem”, published in Prilozi Instituta za istoriju (Proceedings of The Institute of History, nr 24, 1988, Sarajevo) Ivo De Guilli used various information sources in order to make an authentic picture of the Near East events. Some of his information and observations, sometimes, were not reliable, but occasionally very precise and authentic. Obviously, there was a number of diplomatic calculations and various options on political questions. All the mentioned, in a rather dramatic way, was found in De Guilli’s reports. The reports of the mentioned Yugoslav diplomate were written at the time of a general uncertainty, brought to a real polarization of the opposing sides in the Near East region. The situation became condensed, the critical time to escalate soon into a war of the Allied and pro Axis powers.

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