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...economize by closing their 93-year-old school, alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovenian). At 1:40 the sit-downers called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sit-Down Strike | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Croatia. No sooner had the Hitler juggernaut rumbled across the 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Grabs and Runs | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Hitler, "Serbs 'im right"). In cellars from Warsaw to Amsterdam they shook one another's hands, for at last the "free" Governments of German-conquered nations had meaning. But the most impressive demonstration outside of Yugoslavia itself was staged in Marseille, where in 1934 a Croatian terrorist assassinated King Alexander. Almost as if by magic, men & women bearing flowers appeared at the spot where the King was shot. Soon the street was covered with flowers piled high. When the police tried to break up this tribute, the people of Marseille bought tramcar tickets, dropped their flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Freedom Takes A Bastion | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...unlike Alexander he has tried hard to placate the autonomy-minded Croats. Against the virtual certainty of losing Croatia and its neighbors if the German demands were resisted, Prince Paul advised their acceptance. His Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch, and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch agreed. So, naturally, did the Croatian Vice Premier, Vladimir Matchek, and Father Fran Kulovetch, the Slovene leader. The Minister of War, General Petar Pesitch, was doubtful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Hitler at the Frontier | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATRE: Toward the Unwelcome | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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