Their notion of an Allied invasion of Dalmatia failed to materialise, as Allies had no intention of landing in Dalmatia. Even so, Winston Churchill was sympathetic to the idea of an Allied invasion of the Croatian coast and so he initiated a discussion with Josip Broz Tito about a possible invasion of the Istrian Peninsula in August 1944. The representatives of the HSS and the Croatian Home Guard offered only promises, and the Yugoslav Partisans were involved in the war. At the Teheran Conference, the Partisans gained the status of an Allied force. The British did not wanted to risk co-operation with the Partisans, and their involvement in Yugoslavia was already complicated since they dealt with both the Royal Yugoslav government-in-exile and the communists. The involvement of the Croatian Home Guard and the HSS would complicate the situation even further.