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In his latest volume of memoirs, called ‘Wartime’, the Yugoslav writer and former revolutionary leader Milovan Djilas, gives us a tantalising glimpse of a most unusual occasion, a meeting in 1951 between himself and his country’s former ally and then adversary, Winston Churchill, now a useful friend again. Only a few lines of their conversation are recorded. They run as follows:
Djilas: Now you too regard Yugoslavia as useful?
Churchill: I have always done so.
Djilas: But you made the 50–50 agreement with Stalin.
Churchill: Yes, but that agreement had to do not with territory but with influence.1
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Notes
Milovan Djilas, Wartime (London, 1977) p. 422.
E. H. Carr, The Moral Foundations for World Order, Foundations for World Order (Denver, 1949) p. 65
T. S. Eliot, Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (London, 1948) pp. 89, 93–4.
Cited in Philip M. Taylor, ‘Cultural Diplomacy and the British Council: 1934–39’, British Journal of International Studies, IV (1978) 256.
Cited in Ruth Emily McMurry and Muna Lee, The Cultural Approach. Another Way in International Relations (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1947) p. 145.
Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1930–39 (London, 1969) p. 328.
On the work of the committees see, British Council pamphlets, ‘The Work of the British Council’ (1937) and ‘Outline of Activities’ (1939).
Eustace Percy, Some Memories (London, 1958) pp. 160–1.
Colin Forbes-Adam, The Life of Lord Lloyd (London, 1948) p. 283.
Forbes-Adam, op. cit., pp. 284–5; Lord Lloyd, The British Case (London, 1939) pp. 13, 17, 37–8.
Sir Walford Selby, Diplomatic Twilight, 1930–40 (London, 1953) p. 103.
Harold Nicolson, The Rede Lecture: ‘The Meaning of Prestige’ (Cambridge, 1937) pp. 20, 25, 30–4.
Cf. Michael Howard, ‘Strategy and Politics in World War II: The British Case’, paper presented to the XIV International Congress of Historical Sciences, San Francisco, Aug. 1975.
War Cabinet Joint Planning Staff, ‘Propaganda Policy’, 23 Oct. 1940, F0371/25174, W3839/49.
Memorandum by Director of Appointments Department, see note 26; on relations with the Ministry of Information cf. A. J. S. White, ‘The British Council: The First Twenty Five Years, 1934–59: a Personal Account’ (a British Council internal document 1965) pp. 30–1, 34. I am grateful to Philip Taylor for the opportunity to see this document.
D. W. Ellwood, ‘Allied Occupation Policy in Italy, 1943–46’, unpublished PhD thesis, University of Reading, 1977, pp. 207–8.
William Reitzel, The Mediterranean. Its Role in American Foreign Policy (New York, 1948) pp. 160–1.
J. O. Iatrides, Revolt in Athens (Princeton, 1972) pp. 124–5.
Cited in Elisabeth Barker, Churchill and Eden at War (London, 1978) p. 294.
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Ellwood, D.W. (1982). ‘Showing the world what it owed to Britain’: foreign policy and ‘cultural propaganda’, 1935–45. In: Pronay, N., Spring, D.W. (eds) Propaganda, Politics and Film, 1918–45. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05893-8_3
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