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...German High Command decided to engage in a major operation against the Yugoslav Partisans at a time when every Axis soldier was needed in Russia. The Partisans had proved themselves a menace to Hitler's New Order. In a recent advance their armies, commanded by stalwart, black-haired Kosta Nagy, captured the town of Karlovac, 30 miles from the Croatian capital of Zagreb, and approached Banja Luka, Bosnia's second largest town, throwing the fear of the Lord into the hearts of the puppet government...
Nagy the Partisan. Those Chetniks who wanted to continue active resistance filtered through the lines and joined a Partisan band under the command of 32-year-old Kosta Nagy. Nagy was not an amateur. As commander of a Croat machine-gun battalion of Republican Spain's International Brigade, Nagy had made a name by holding a position on the Ebro for weeks in spite of persistent attacks by Fascist units far better equipped...
...Yugoslav People's Army (Partisans), under onetime Spanish Republican Leader Kosta Naditch, continued an offensive hopefully timed to relieve pressure on Russia. Other Communist-led Partisan groups operated in a belt running intermittently from near the Italian border through Montenegro and Southern Serbia. > In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, guerrillas or parachutists blew up an armament works, wrecking buildings, machines and stocks of rifle barrels...
Ruth Mitchell had been busy writing a guidebook, studying native folklore in Albania when the Iralians seized it. She has since been living in Yugoslavia. One day last week she walked into a peasant hut on the outskirts of Belgrade and stood before 70-year-old Kosta Pechanatz, leader of the Chetniks. A veteran Komitadji, stationed on the Salonika Front during World War I, Kosta Pechanatz got a French aviator to drop him in Serbia, there made so much trouble for the Germans that it took three Army divisions to quiet things down...
...catch the Slavic note, but the U. S. is too full of sad-singing Russians for their imitators to go undetected. Joseph Urban has spread out the settings with a fine free hand. Choreographer Jack Haskell has set in motion some adept and personable disciples. Ula Sharon, Tessa Kosta, Guy Robertson and a hitherto second-string funny man, Bernard Gorcey, will satisfy the moderately desirous. It is an earnest and expensive effort at light opera. It is rich, vivid, entertaining. But another such as Rose-Marie? Not quite...