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...said an Italian communique last week. Three days later a delegation of Croats led by Poglavnik (Leader) Ante Pavelitch arrived in Rome to offer the Crown (a wreath of golden clover leaves surmounted by a cross and an apple) to anybody Italy's wry little King Vittorio Emanuele should designate. The King had a couple of cousins who were in need of work. One was the Duke of Aosta, who had just finished losing the Crown of Ethiopia for his Cousin Vittorio (see p. 37). The other was Aosta's lean, towering younger brother, Aimone, Duke of Spoleto...
...gratitude for their pro-Axis campaign of terrorism. Hitler deeded to Croat extremists under Dr. Ante Pavelitch* a Croat State that will be about as free as the "independent" State of Slovakia...
...Sentenced (in absentia) to death in France for instigating the assassination of King Alexander in Marseille in 1934, Dr. Pavelitch will probably be pardoned. Last week, there was already a movement afoot to free three accomplices, now serving prison terms...
...sinister Ante Pavelitch, a peasant himself by birth, who engineered the assassination of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in Marseille in 1934 (last week Alexander's son, 17-year-old King Peter of Yugoslavia was variously reported with his troops, flying to Cyprus, to Turkey...
After this deed Ante Pavelitch took refuge in Italy, which refused to expel him for French trial. He was sentenced to death in absentia. Last week he proclaimed himself first President of the new Croatia, including Bosnia. Herzegovina, Dalmatia and the old Croat Province. He named as his Premier his fellow Terrorist Slavko Kvaternik. Balkan experts tended to discount as propaganda rumors that the venerable Croat Peasant Leader Vladimir Matchek had sided with the peasant-haters...