Word: matchek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Croatia's quisling Premier, Ante Pavelitch, were deserting to the Chetniks. On the rocks by Croatia's roadsides, on the bricks of Croatian walls, white paint smeared out the Pavelitch slogan: "Jivilo Hrvatska Ustashi!" (Hail Croatia's Revolutionists!). To Nazi-inspired rumors that Dr. Vladimir Matchek, imprisoned leader of Croatia's once-powerful Peasant Party, had been offered the job of Premier to replace Pavelitch, Croats in Ankara cried...
...Matchek a traitor? ... He would die first! Jivilo Yugoslavia...
...three 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...
...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...
...Yugoslavia Germany tried both kidnapping and amputation. General Dusan Simovitch's coup having foiled the kidnapping plot, last week the Croat leader, old Dr. Vladimir Matchek, joined Premier Simovitch's Cabinet as Vice Premier, thereby ending Germany's hope of amputating Croatia. Two days later, in Moscow, the Yugoslav Minister, Milan Gavrilovitch, and Russia's Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov signed a treaty of "nonaggression and friendship" while Joseph Stalin looked on, beaming broadly...