Word: montenegro
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...been brought into existence in 1943 at Jajce, with a program that provided for : 1 ) the creation of a federated Yugoslavia composed of the six states of Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia; 2) establishment of "truly democratic" rights and liberties; 3) inviolability of private property; 4) no revolutionary, economic, or social changes...
...surgeons, but they often have no tools to do the job. 'At least we don't have to do it without anesthetics any more,' says General Nikolic. In this particular district of Bosnia there are now sufficient basic medicaments and bandages. Not so, however, in remote Montenegro and eastern Bosnia, where heavy fighting is raging today...
Some Live on Nettles. The staple food in most districts is dried corn served as a gruel (skrob), with sour milk and potatoes on the side. In part of Montenegro and Bosnia famine is chronic; thousands of people live on nettles. But they live, and they fight. Men and beasts alike are always hungry for salt. A peasant will offer 9 lb. of corn for 2 lb. of salt, or a goat and kid for 11 lb. of salt. This spring, as every spring, wheat and vegetables have been sowed, but the peasants remember the German way of marching...
...Major Alberto Taborga, strong-armed Minister of the Interior, was replaced by tall, serious Lieut. Colonel Alfredo Pacheco, chief of the Air Force, who once studied flying in the U.S. Twenty-nine-year-old Rafael Otazo, vehement against nearly everything, replaced Minister of Agriculture Carlos Montenegro, who has much the same reputation. Nervous, nationalistic Walter Guevara became Secretary General of the Government in place of Augusto Cespedes, moving spirit of the newspaper La Calle, once blacklisted...
...about Mihailovich's attitude toward the Allies. But the eclipse of Mihailovich did not mean the eclipse of the Serbs: they form a sizable fraction of the Partisan armies, and in its proposed framework for a federation of seven Yugoslav states (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sanjak, Montenegro, Macedonia) the Partisan National Liberation Council has given the Serbs a predominant part...