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Abstract: The following study looks at one area of Czechoslovak-Yugoslav political relations, this being their relations with third countries, specifically Italy and Germany. Although the Czechoslovak Republic and Kingdom of Yugoslavia were close allies in the interwar period who co-ordinated their foreign policy within the Little Entente framework including at a bilateral level, there were also many disputes and expectations which went unfulfilled in foreign policy relations which arose from the two allies’ different positions in regard to third countries, specifically Italy and Germany, for example. The study endeavours to find the reasons and roots of these controversies between the countries, and also to map their consequences for mutual political relations. In so doing, it draws from extensive archive material of Czechoslovak and Yugoslav provenance, in particular from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague, the Archives of the Office of the President of the Republic in Prague, and the Yugoslav Archives in Belgrade. Along with this source material, contemporary newspapers and domestic and foreign literature are also used. |
