Aleš Bebler

Aleš Bebler (8 June 1907 – 12 August 1981) was a Yugoslav diplomat and a political Commissar.

He was a Slovene by ethnicity and was born in Idrija, in the Austro-Hungarian Duchy of Carniola (now Slovenia).

He completed a doctorate in law in Paris, and lived in exile (in both the Soviet Union and France) from 1931 until 1939.

During the onset of World-War II, he joined Tito's Guerrillas against the invading Nazi forces.

He later worked as Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and then served as an ambassador to France and Indonesia.