Word: cvetkovitch
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...Germans as much as possible, then retire in order behind Salonika to the main Anglo-Greek force. This plan was disrupted by Yugoslav weakness, which was due to troop dispositions which had been made for political rather than military reasons by the pre-coup, pro-German Government of Dragisha Cvetkovitch...
...Soldiers. At 1 o'clock in the morning of March 27, 1941, a little-known correspondent for the New York Times, Ray Brock, was sitting in a cafe in a suburb of Belgrade. Correspondent Brock had filed a story about the night's demonstrations against Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch's Government, which the police had broken up, and was having a drink before going home to bed. A Montenegrin he knew came up and whispered in his ear. Correspondent Brock dived for the door...
...patrol of soldiers, commanded by an Air Corps officer, appeared at the hilltop home of Premier Cvetkovitch, who had signed the Axis pact in Vienna scarcely 48 hours before. A guard stood before the door. "The Premier can not be disturbed," said the guard...
...Premier Cvetkovitch the officer simply said: "Come." The Premier dressed and went with the patrol to General Staff Headquarters. There he found the Air Corps Chief, General Dusan Simovitch, with Chief of Staff General Peter Kossitch and Inspector General Bogoljub Hitch...
Four Days, Four Nights. Prince Paul worked day & night from Thursday until Monday to reorganize his Cabinet. A special train with steam up waited in Belgrade's railroad station to take Ministers Cvetkovitch and Cincar-Markovitch to Vienna to sign on Hitler's dotted line. During those four days & nights much happened. British and Greek diplomats worked feverishly in Belgrade to swing the Yugoslav Government to their side. The British made it clear that if Britain won the war with Yugoslavia on the German side, Yugoslavia's dream of a pan-Slavic State in the Balkans would...