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...spying-who told of the "odor of death which hangs over the half-destroyed capital" as he watched German soldiers dig out a few of the 7,000 dead, the 10,000 wounded. Stranded in Zagreb was A.P. Correspondent Max Harrelson, his passport seized by the new puppet Croat Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Missing Correspondents | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...latest fugitive bigwigs to be chased out of their country by the rolling swastika fled first last week to hard-pressed Athens, then to Jerusalem. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. About all they took with them was the grim satisfaction that Adolf Hitler will have a tough time making that hetero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Problem in Division | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...gratitude for their pro-Axis campaign of terrorism. Hitler deeded to Croat extremists under Dr. Ante Pavelitch* a Croat State that will be about as free as the "independent" State of Slovakia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Problem in Division | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...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 »

After this deed Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...

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

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