Word: ninchich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yugoslavs & Serbs. Last January Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich resigned. His resignation was a defeat for those groups which were working for postwar Serb domination of Yugoslavia. Candidate for the Foreign Minister's post was liberal Serb Milan Grol, Minister for Communications, who had the support of three of the five Serb parties, as well as of the Croats and Slovenes in the Government. But the two pan-Serb parties threatened to quit the Government if Grol became Foreign Minister, and so Premier Yovanovich took the portfolio...
...Yugoslav Government-in-Exile was hastily formed in the summer of 1941 by men who symbolized most of the political errors of the past two decades. Last week the sexagenarian exiles gave themselves an overdue shake-up and ousted bent, deaf, secretive, forgetful Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich...
...richest men in Yugoslavia, and the man who signed the U.S. master Lend-Lease agreement in 1942, Ninchich was a sacrifice in a Cabinet reshuffle designed to "achieve unity among various groups inside the country and to strengthen the Government." His place was taken by another oldster, Premier Slobodan Yovanovich, who announced that General Draja Mihailovich would continue (from inside embattled Yugoslavia) as Minister...
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