Word: dalmatians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Balkans. The Germans retook most of the Dalmatian coast from Yugoslav guerrillas. The Germans also regained Leros (and claimed Samos) from luckless, ill-supported British soldiers who attacked Hitler's Aegean outworks last month, never had a chance to keep them...
Rain and darkness made an ideal cloak. In the hour before dawn the little vessel from Italy ran in close to the rocky Dalmatian coast and dropped its solitary passenger. Daniel De Luce, Associated Press correspondent, climbed into the wet woods without a sound, felt his way to the appointed rendezvous...
...evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost the port of Spalato last week, but they are making the iron ring uncomfortably hot to hold...
...Yugoslavia, through which the Vardar courses, was still a major German worry in the Balkans. Puppet Croatia was in turmoil: desertions mounted in her puppet army, and her politicians sought a safe way from the German camp. Russian sources reported that the Partisans had seized a stretch of the Dalmatian coast below Fiume. Hungarian sources reported that Adolf Hitler, apparently dissatisfied with the puppet Serb Government of General Milan Nedich, had also summoned to Berchtesgaden ex-Premier Dragisha Cvetkovich. Swarthy, ambitious Dragisha Cvetkovich had visited Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1941, then had allied Yugoslavia with the Axis...
...Symphony's board of directors last week filed out of their board room in Manhattan's Steinway Hall and announced the new holder of the most prestigious post in U.S. music. The post-musical director and conductor of the New York Philharmonic-will be filled by a Dalmatian-born Pole, Artur Rodzinski, bushy-haired, gangling present conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra...