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June Bugs and Generators. Tesla had the fictional earmarks of genius. He was humbly born (in a Croatian village now part of Yugoslavia) of a preacher father and illiterate mother who loved to invent household gadgets. Nikola invented a popgun and a water wheel at five; a 16-bug-power motor (operated by June bugs glued to the arms of a tiny windmill) at nine; a "vacuum motor" at twelve; his famed alternating current generator at 25. This came to him while he was reciting Goethe's Faust one day in a Budapest park; he promptly diagrammed...
...blacksmith's boy from Klanjec had become leader of a resistance movement that at one time or another pinned down as many as 18 German divisions in fruit less, fraying warfare in the wild Croatian and Bosnian mountains. But even in the darkest days, when it seemed as if the out side world would never hear the thunder of war reverberating among the beleaguered hills, Tito seldom grew irritable or despondent...
Stoyan was flown into Yugoslavia early this month, landed ten miles behind the fighting front, was driven in a captured German Volkswagen to Marshal Tito's mountain stronghold (TIME, May 22). He is the first U.S. newsman to meet Tito face to face (they talked in Serbo-Croatian), the first correspondent able to short-circuit an interpreter and talk directly with the guerrillas, the first American reporter to enter Yugoslavia at all since Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel De Luce got in and out of the country seven months...
...harassed King said that he wanted a "neutral" government, i.e., one composed of men supporting neither Tito nor Mihailovich. To form such a cabinet, he summoned Ivan Subasich, onetime Governor of Croatia, a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, who had recently lived in the U.S. Handsome, hardy Dr. Subasich was flatly anti-Mihailovich, pro-Tito. His assignment was tough. Its success depended on Russian approval, since Tito would surely look to Moscow for guidance...
According to Tito, the German fighter is not what he used to be. He has morale only in the impetus of the first assault. If it fails, he loses heart. Nowadays, the Ustashi (Croatian quisling soldier) is worth two Germans in combat. He knows what to expect if defeated, and is intimately acquainted with the Yugoslav terrain...