Word: anti-nazi
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...American woman last week joined an anti-Nazi Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that operated in the Balkans before Adolf Hitler was born. It was a secret band of Serbian and Bulgarian patriots who called themselves Chetniks (home guards), were scornfully referred to as Komitadji (guerrillas) by their Turkish overlords. Pledged neither to give nor accept quarter, the Chetniks plotted assassinations, harassed the Turks, kept the pot of Balkan independence boiling. In World War I the Serbian Chetniks circulated behind the enemy's lines, blew up bridges, destroyed communications, fanned revolts among Austria-Hungary's Balkan minorities. Denied...
First the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano published the vigorously anti-Nazi Lenten pastoral of the Most Rev. Conrad Gröber, Archbishop of Freiburg, which German authorities had suppressed. "The schism of the German people is undeniable," the prelate declared, adding that instead of bringing unity the war has made the exclusion of confirmed Catholics more evident. And then he bade his flock reject passive resignation as against "conscience and ... the example of Christ" and urged them to resist Nazi efforts to teach their children anti-Christian doctrines...
...offered a plane to carry Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked to travel by train; that the first full-dress meeting of the Yugoslav Crown Council since 1934 was called to discuss the angry anti-Nazi rumblings of the Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene clans, parties, secret societies and just plain rugged individualists; that when Adolf Hitler got impatient and began to wave an angry finger at the dotted line, Dragisha Cvetkovitch's physicians decided his health would not stand a trip to Berlin...
...Hauptmann became a celebrity six years ago when the Rutgers trustees tried him for firing an anti-Nazi professor. The trustees exonerated Dr. Hauptmann, but the trial showed that he was an ardent Nazi. Witnesses testified that he had called President Wilson a "Schweinehund," had written to Nazi Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels for propaganda material to be used...
Yugoslavia's sleekly handsome Regent, Prince Paul, is related to British royalty, was an Oxford classmate of the Duke of Windsor, has always been pro-British. Thousands of Yugoslavs, including many Government and military officials, are fervently anti-Nazi. Yugoslavia can field 950,000 men in her defense (and last week had called...