This chapter mentions Field Marshal Alexander, Supreme Allied commander of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, who was sent by Winston Churchill to find out Marshal Tito's intentions in Italy. It details how Tito showed Alexander the dispositions on the stationary Stem Front while concealing his far-reaching initiative on both sides of the Adriatic. It also explains Alexander's requirement for a land corridor for advancing from Trieste to Vienna, suggesting Anglo-American occupation of all the areas west of the Italian–Yugoslav prewar border. The chapter analyzes Tito's offer that Churchill's army may use the Ljubljana Gate passing across Yugoslav territory, but in return he wanted his own occupation zone in Austria. It describes Tito as someone who was hard to out-bluff as he was never impressed with force unless an imminent threat was involved.
