Word: croats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your coverage of the so-called "oppressed" German-speaking South Tyrol Italian subjects is paradoxical [March 9]. The record of the Austrian government in dealing with Slovenian and Croat (ethnically Slavic) minorities reveals an amazing degree of similarity to the fate of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule. Perhaps one method to resolve this so-called "crisis" of German-speaking South Tyroleans under Italian rule is exactly what the Austrian provincial authorities have done with its Slovenian and Croat minorities, i.e., forced (direct and indirect) assimilation or immigration...
...Pavelic, a fanatical Croat fascist, was named Poglavnik (leader) by Hitler, and ruled Croatia during the early days of the Nazi occupation of Yugoslavia. Responsible for the extermination of 800,000 of his countrymen, Pavelic escaped to Argentina after the war, began working for Stroessner late last year...
...chief of staff (1935-39) of the French army, was in command of Maginot Line troops when France capitulated in 1940, escaped to Algiers, where he briefly joined De Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation. One of his most famous adventures was in 1934 in Marseille, when a Croat assassin attacked the car in which he was riding with Yugoslavia's King Alexander, killed the King (and France's Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou), wounded Georges while he tried to shield the King...
...wandering TIME correspondent found the whole population of San Pedro, on Lake Titicaca, dancing in the waterfront plaza. Nobody seemed to notice the icy winds whistling off the lake. The mayor and all the other officials were looping. The only sober man in town was the innkeeper, a young Croat refugee...