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Before World War II Zagreb had been the center of Croat resistance to Yugoslavia's dominant Serbs. Croats had clamored for autonomy, had got a measure of it in 1939. They got a different kind from the Nazis, who set up a separate Croat state. Ante Pavelich became its puppet premier and its army grew to one-and-a half divisions of quisling Croatian troops, plus enough Italian regulars and Black Shirts to control it. But, as Ante Pavelich soon found out, this was not what some Croats wanted. He dared not go out in the streets without...
...hostile forces of Germany, Italy and their satellites. For months at a time little is heard from Yugoslavia's private second front, and this arouses fear that resistance is ending. But last week reports from southeast Europe told of widened Yugoslav operations that spread even across the Croat frontier into Italy. South of Zagreb fighting was in progress for two communications centers, while in Serbia Mihailovich's forces had repulsed an onslaught by one German, one Bulgarian and two or three Italian divisions, far outnumbering the Yugoslav patriots...
...same time General Dusan Simovich, who led last winter's revolt against the pro-Axis compromises of Regent Prince Paul, was succeeded as Premier by dwarfish, dynamic Slobodan Jovanovich, 72, a liberal, gifted historian and jurist who may be expected to harmonize all anti-Axis Yugoslav elements, Serb, Croat and Slovene...
Peoples who know no English heard it in translations and summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...
Koestler found himself behind the barbed wire with Croat peasant partisans, Spanish syndicalists, Czech liberals, Italian socialists, Hungarian and Polish Communists, German undergrounders, Russians of various political shades whose only common denominator was that they hated Stalin and denounced one another to the French Surete Nationale. All these were "the scum of the earth." Nearly all "bore the physical or mental marks of torture and persecution in the countries from which they had escaped, and for a more enlightened [French] administration these marks should have been regarded as the stamp of their bona fides and loyalty." But they were indesirables...