Dimitri J. Tosevic

Dimitri J. Tosevic
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Born	1896
Died	1964
Nationality	Serbian
Citizenship	Serbia
Occupation	Journalist Publicist

Dimitri J. Tosević also spelled Dimitrije Jovan Tošević (Serbian Cyrillic: Димитрије Ј.Тошевић, 1896-1964) was a Serb journalist and publicist who speacialized in reporting geopolitical troublespots and current events in post-World War I Europe, and during and after World War II when Yugoslava and the rest of Eastern Europe were relignuished to the Soviet Union|Soviets. He authored several books on political problems during his career as an intependent international journalist. Before the war, he lived in various parts of Europe and studied at fist-hand European systems of government. He travelled also in Africa and the Orient and came to Canada after travelling the long way around the world when the Germans invaded his country. When he made Canada his home during the World War II, he was often interviewed by members of the Allied press corps (Willson Woodside, Peter Stursberg) and reported nightly on the radio for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Following the war, he contributed many articles in the Canadian newspapers (Globe and Mail, The Montreal Star, Winnipeg Free Press), magazines (Saturday Night (magazine), Maclean's, Weekend (magazine)) and journals (Empire Digest, Food for Thought, New Europe, Foreign Affairs, Tomorrow). When David Martin, Ontario-born Canadian journalist and air force pilot, prepared a manuscript in defence of Dragoljub Mihailović he wrote in the Preface (xiv) of "Ally Betrayed: The Uncensored Story of Tito and Mihailovich" that he "had access to special sources", among them Dimitri J. Tosevic, who knew Mihailovich personally.

Tosevic spent most of his career in the Westestern Hemisphere as a freelance foreign correspondent, commentator and author.He was recognized as a serious student of the European problem and an expert on Central Europe and the Balkans. His pamphlet entitled "The World Crisis in Maps" was first published in 1949 by Ryerson Press in Toronto with the intended purpose to enlighten the reader on the dangers of communism. Tosevic was well aware of the three European revolutions -- Russian Communist (1917 in Russia and 1945 in Eastern Europe), Italian Fascist (1922) and Nazi Germany (1933) -- might at times be operating against one another; yet the had one thing in common the aim to overthrow existing government (democratic) institutions. After the war, Communist propaganda was at its height in Canada but the revelation of the Igor Gouzenko|Igor Gouzenko Affair and Tosevic's "The World Crisis in Maps" clarified the imminent danger, and later as a book in 1954.

In Canada Tosevic befriended many of his generation such with CBC Foreign Affairs correspondent Willson Woodside, Canadian-born author David Martin; Dr. Watson Kirkconnell, President of Arcadia University; Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press; Editor-in-Chief The Globe and Mail|Oakley Dalgleish of the Globe and Mail; American politician Alvin E. O'Konski, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1943; Czech senator Vojta Benes; R. A. Farquharson, NATO Director of Information, Paris; David Dallin, associate editor of The New Leader of New York City|New York; and other prominent individuals.

In Toronto he was close to the Serbian émigré community, writing for the Voice of Canadian Serbs and corresponding with friends throughout the diaspora.

Works

• Moderni Turecki: Mustafy Kemala Ataturka (Prague, 1935)
• Palestina v bouři (Prague, 1937)
• Orta Avrupa ile Balkan Avrupa'sinin littihadi ve Cekosloslovakya'nin rolü (Istanbul, Turkey, 1940)
• Third Year of Guerilla, with foreword by Sir Watson Kirkconnell (1943)
• Not Nazis But Germans, with foreword by Senator Vojta Benes (1944)
• The World Crisis in Maps, Its Background and Course, with foreword by Alvin E. O'Konski (1954)

Literature

• "Traitors or Patriots: A Stroy of the German Anti-Nazi Resistance" by Louis R. Eltscher who quotes Dimitrije J. Tosevic in the Preface of the book.
• Queen's Quarterly
• New Mexico Quarterly Review
• International Journal
• University of Toronto Quarterly
• The Delhousie Review
• New York Times Book Review

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