Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces number somewhere near 200,000, spread through most of Serbia, Montenegro and part of Croatia-an island surrounded by the hostile forces of Germany, Italy and their satellites. For months at a time little is heard from Yugoslavia's private second front, and this arouses fear that resistance is ending. But last week reports from southeast Europe told of widened Yugoslav operations that spread even across the Croat frontier into Italy. South of Zagreb fighting was in progress for two communications centers, while in Serbia Mihailovich's forces had repulsed an onslaught by one German, one Bulgarian...
...invisible" mountaineers. Symbol of resistance. Mihailovich drew new recruits from all the Balkans. Possibly he had 200,000 men in all. But he was not invulnerable. At week's end, the exiled Yugoslav Government in London announced that his troops were hard pressed in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Hopeful of arms and help from somewhere, somehow, Mihailovich himself radioed that his position was "critical...
...went to Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Old Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro. She climbed mountains, visited Roman and Venetian ruins, tuberculosis sanatoria, Turkish mosques, shrines, churches, monasteries, tombs, hovels, homes. She talked with intellectuals, professors, lawyers, peasants, poets, censors, soldiers, politicians, anti-Serb Croats, fanatical Serb nationalists, Bosnian Moslems and unassimilated Turks...
Logical choice for a puppet ruler of the puppet kingdom of Montenegro is Prince Michael Petrovitch, nephew of Italy's Queen Elena, grandson of Montenegro's last ruler, King Nicholas. The 36-year-old princeling, who has lived most of his life in exile in France, was recently chosen by the Axis as Montenegro's new Regent...
Hitler may present Crete to Mussolini, as he has presented him with the puppetries of Croatia and Montenegro and with a bit of Dalmatia, but such generosity costs Hitler nothing because Mussolini is a puppet of Hitler's. Well might the two dictators reach complete agreement; Mussolini can no longer...