Word: croat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northern Croatian plains of Yugoslavia than the formation of an "independent" Croatia was announced, its capital at Zagreb, second to Belgrade among Yugoslav cities. The announcer was a Quisling worthy of the name. He was dark, treacherous Ante Pavelitch, leader of the terroristic Ustashi, a band of rapacious Croat schemers who for years have hated the Serbs, Jews and Croatia's own peasants and plotted with Italian, Hungarian and German money to split Yugoslavia and bring the Ustashi to power...
...Yugoslavia Germany tried both kidnapping and amputation. General Dusan Simovitch's coup having foiled the kidnapping plot, last week the Croat leader, old Dr. Vladimir Matchek, joined Premier Simovitch's Cabinet as Vice Premier, thereby ending Germany's hope of amputating Croatia. Two days later, in Moscow, the Yugoslav Minister, Milan Gavrilovitch, and Russia's Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov signed a treaty of "nonaggression and friendship" while Joseph Stalin looked on, beaming broadly...
...character of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia has been a subject of controversy for years. His friends said he was a patriot, ambitious only to turn a united kingdom over to his nephew at the end of his regency. These people said his appeasement of Yugoslavia's Croat minority was directed toward that end. His enemies said he was a weakling, prodded by his wife, Princess Olga of Greece (whose sister is Britain's Duchess of Kent), into immense ambitions, even the ambition to rule all the Slavs, including the Russians. These people said Hitler played on Prince Paul...
...Second Vice Premier he chose the "intellectual conscience," Slobodan Jovanovitch. The post of First Vice Premier he saved for the Croat leader, Vladimir Matchek...
...customary winter costume of long underwear, red golf socks and high-laced shoes, genial, ghostly, 84-year-old Hermit-Inventor Nikola Tesla (Tesla induction motor, Tesla pump, Tesla transformer, some 700 other patents) indulged an old enthusiasm for prize fighters, went down to dine with a fellow Croat, Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic...