Гашење југословенске краљевске војне мисије у Италији 1945. године
Abolition of the Yugoslav Royal Military Mission in Italy in 1945

Summary/Abstract: Due to the importance that Italy had within the antifascist coalition after September 1943, the Yugoslav royal government sent in Italy a military mission which arrived in Bari on the 21 January 1944. Through the process of creating a new Yugoslav government composed of representatives of the National Committee for the Liberation of Yugoslavia and the royal government, the military-political representative body, formed in Italy by the royal government, was slowly losing its importance and had a decreasing effect on the complex military and political developments in the territory of Italy in the period after September 1943. Strengthening of the partisan movement in the territory of occupied Yugoslavia and the increasing importance of this movement in the anti-Hitler coalition, among other things through the military-political representative bodies established in Italy, considerably influenced the royal military mission in Italy to lose its significance. The Yugoslav royal military mission in Italy was abolished on the 15 November 1944, but it continued with its activities. The Yugoslav delegation to Advisory Council for Italy assumed the representation of the Yugoslav diplomatic interests in Italy. Deputy delegate in the Yugoslav delegation, Major Sloven Smodlaka negotiated with allied military representatives in Italy on the conditions of abolishing the Yugoslav royal military mission. During negotiations Smodlaka tried to obtain the best terms and to ensure that the Yugoslav government keeps all property of the royal military mission in Rome, Bari and Naples. The negotiation process was completed in August 194, but the Yugoslav government failed in achieving its goals.

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