Word: croats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...citizen of Croat extraction who had once been a district organizer of the U.S. Communist Party...
Seen at Baker at 10:45 o'clock Wednesday eve frantically reversing the decision were Ernie Banker, Fritz "To a Croat, don't you know" Arsulich an Max Kirschbaum...
...time Tito, the Croat, and Colonel Mihailovich, the Serb, worked together. Then the followers of Draja Mihailovich clashed with Tito's Partisans. Tito accused Mihailovich of collaboration with the Ger mans. What had caused the rift? Was it traditional Yugoslav nationalist differences, subtly played on by the Germans? Had Moscow decided to crowd out the Communists' only important competitor for control of the Yugoslav resistance? Whatever the cause, though Chetniks and Partisans both continued to fight the Germans, they also began to fight each other...
...they could, which was not often, fought when they could, which was often enough. The Partisan emblem was a red, five-pointed star. For a time a yellow hammer & sickle was used by one brigade, soon was discreetly dropped. Word spread through the hills, towns and cities : a remarkable Croat named Tito was fighting the Germans. Yugoslavs from all classes and political parties joined him, including, last week, a son of Mihailovich. Young, strong women like Stana Tomashevich marched and fought like men. Their favorite weapon was the German Schmeisser machine pistol. Their favorite song was a haunting...
Churchill acted. A shake-up occurred in the Yugoslav Government in Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized Tito as head of his provisional administration inside Yugo slavia. Tito agreed that at war's end Yugo slavs would get a chance to vote for what ever kind of government they wanted. Meanwhile, the King might continue to call himself King...