Through hell and high water, or odyssey of a Balkan diplomat [typescript], ca. 1958.

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Through hell and high water, or odyssey of a Balkan diplomat [typescript], ca. 1958.

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This unpublished biography was written sometime after 1958 in collaboration with Walter Wallace, and describes Kolombatovitchs family background, World War I experiences, including his experience of the Russian Revolution, his diplomatic career, and his national and social ideals.

236 leaves.

New-York Historical Society

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Wallace, Walter F.

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Zvetina, John.

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Kolombatovitch, George, b. 1887.

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George Kolombatovich was a Yugoslav diplomat during the 1920s-1940s, who served in Austria, Greece, as Consul General in Chicago, and in Latin America during World War II, where he befriended U.S. diplomat Claude G. Bowers, to whom he dedicated this manuscript. He lived in exile in San Francisco after the communists came to power. From the description of Through hell and high water, or odyssey of a Balkan diplomat [typescript], ca. 1958. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldC...