Word: nintchitch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continue to exist as one nation was in doubt, and that was a risk the tall, grave-eyed General took when he staged his coup. To be Foreign Minister of his Government he picked an elder statesman who had been 17 years out of politics, 65-year-old Momtchilo Nintchitch...
...Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture." The German Minister, Georg Viktor von Heeren, rushed to the Foreign Office to bluster. Old Dr. Nintchitch gave him exactly six minutes to speak his piece...
When Herr von Heeren asked what the new Government intended to do about the Axis Pact, the Foreign Minister answered: "I cannot tell you that yet." Later Dr. Nintchitch announced that Yugoslavia would respect all "public and open" commitments which previous governments had made; i.e., it would not respect any secret clause in the treaty. (Insiders said that the pact contained a clause creating a no man's land on the Greco-Serb border, where Germany would be allowed to concentrate motorized divisions.) Still later Dr. Nintchitch elaborated some more: Yugoslavia was returning to a policy of "strict neutrality...