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Ratomir Milikić, PhD
Institute for Contemporary History
Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

 

WITHDRAWAL OF YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC PERSONNEL FROM THE KINGDOM OF ROMANIA IN 1941

Vol. XL, 1/2022, pp. 73–88
https://doi.org/10.29362/ist20veka.2022.1.mil.73-88

 

ABSTRACT/RESUME:

The author endeavors to recreate the withdrawal of Yugoslav diplomats from the mission to the Kingdom of Romania, which differed from the diplomatic offices in other states that had turned hostile overnight. Most of the diplomatic/consular staff and other citizens who found themselves caught in Romania, retreated toward either Turkey or Odessa. Those who reached Istanbul placed themselves at the service of the Yugoslav Government-In-Exile. It was not before May 14, 1941, more than a month after the invasion of Yugoslavia, that the Kingdom of Romania denied hospitality to the Yugoslav diplomatic/consular personnel. Moreover, it did not send them to Germany to join the large group of less fortunate diplomats destined for years under occupation or in concentration camps, but to neutral states instead. The paper relies on the archives of the Yugoslav Government-In-Exile, as well as the diaries of Kosta St. Pavlović, who served as a diplomat in Bucharest when the war broke out.

 

KEYWORDS: Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Kingdom of Romania, Diplomacy, World War II, Withdrawal of Diplomatic Personnel, Severance of Bilateral Ties

 

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