ABSTRACT
Like Romania, Yugoslavia was a status quo power, a member of both the Little Entente and the Balkan Pact. The prospect of a new, federal Yugoslavia was at first tacitly and then explicitly addressed in British broadcasts. The basic broadcasting directive for Yugoslavia specifically warned against separatism. After touring Yugoslavia in early 1939, its representatives described her as the most promising field for British cultural diplomacy. However, British propaganda had little to do with the fact that Yugoslavia was the first country in Europe to boast a mass guerrilla movement. In August 1939, only days before the German invasion of Poland, the Belgrade government and the Croat Peasant Party under Vladko Macek reached the so-called Sporazum which reconstituted Yugoslavia on a quasi-federal basis with an extensive autonomous Croat region. The Belgrade government did sign the Tripartite Pact on 25 March significantly without its military clauses.
