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When the news about the Croatian nationalist hijackers broke, and I had long put Europe out of mind, the pages of the Minneapolis Tribune opened onto the sneering image of one of my four traveling Yugoslavs. I dredged the forgotten picture from the bottom of my pack and the pair seemed to mirror each other right down to the cut of their clothes. The following day the outlaws' identities were released--Petar Matovic was a resident of New York. But I can't help musing that the sketch of the man with the mustache that emerged in my first class...
Died. Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, 83, who was expelled from his country in 1941 for courting the Nazis; in Paris. Following the 1934 assassination of King Alexander by Croatian nationalists, Paul became senior regent for eleven-year-old King Peter, his nephew. When his policy of conciliation with Hitler led to a popular military coup, Paul fled Yugoslavia, and Peter commanded an unsuccessful resistance to German occupation. Under British house arrest in Kenya until 1945, Paul lived in exile in Florence and Paris after...
...plane was being skyjacked to advertise independence for Croatia, one of Yugoslavia's six republics and long a region of simmering separatism. Thus began a bizarre and improbable skyjacking, the first to succeed in the U.S. in nearly four years. It was the latest blow struck by Croatian separatists, who have been waging a campaign of assassination, bombing and blackmail for several years...
...Unfortunately, you feel out of place here unless you're proficient in a foreign language, and I don't mean a better than 560 score on your achievement test. Why just the other day a guy next to me dozed off and five minutes later he was talking Serbo-Croatian in his sleep...
Hitler's myriad executioners sometimes operated abroad. One early victim was Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, killed in 1934 by Austrian Nazis. A Croatian secret society called the Ustachis, with possible assistance from Mussolini's and Hitler's governments, killed French Foreign Minister Jean Louis Barthou and King Alexander of Yugoslavia in Marseille...