Word: milan
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Died. Ex-Queen Natalie of Serbia, 82; in the convent of Notre-Dame-de-Sion in Paris. Daughter of a Russian colonel and Rumanian princess, she married Prince Milan of Serbia at 16, bore Prince Alexander at 17, became Queen at 23. The dissipations and amours of her husband drove her to flee the country with Alexander, whom Milan soon kidnapped. Then Milan set Alexander on the throne at 13, retired to Paris, died in 1901. Natalie returned to Belgrade after her son married Draga Mashin, widow of an engineer, whom it was supposed Draga had poisoned. Officers...
Cruising down the Potomac on a hot Sunday afternoon, the onetime Coast Guard cutter Milan turned suddenly off course when five tide-spun swimmers were spotted struggling in the water 1 ,000 yards away. As the cutter drew up, lines were thrown overboard. Then the strong arms of Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Assistant Secretary Ralph Bard and Colonel William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan helped pull the swimmers to safety...
...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...
...Poles, Belgians, Dutch, Rumanians, Jews, "De Gaullists"-were already clearing out as fast as they could get visas. Yugoslav oppositionists handed Prince Paul a memorandum complaining that the people were being told nothing. Presently police raided the headquarters of the oppositionist Democratic Party, seized its manifestoes and its leader, Milan Grol. It all had the familiar odor of the Hitler approach. At week's end it was reported that Yugoslavia had arranged a "compromise" with Adolf-Yugoslavia would be "nonaggressive" and would allow the Nazis to move down the Vardar Valley toward Greece. Next it was reported that Germany...
Foreign correspondents in Rome, who tried to get facts to support the rumors, got complete denials. Rome's United Press office telephoned an old friend, Journalist Enrico Lelli of Milan, only to hear a languid reply: "The reports regarding Milan are ridiculous and fantastic. I have not seen any Germans and as for riots, that's crazy." Nevertheless, there were plenty of German soldiers in Italy, as the Germans proved by releasing a photograph of troops marching through an unnamed city (see cut). Finally, while the Fascist Party held clamorous pep meetings in the supposedly treasonable areas...