Word: pechanatz
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Ruth Mitchell had been busy writing a guidebook, studying native folklore in Albania when the Iralians seized it. She has since been living in Yugoslavia. One day last week she walked into a peasant hut on the outskirts of Belgrade and stood before 70-year-old Kosta Pechanatz, leader of the Chetniks. A veteran Komitadji, stationed on the Salonika Front during World War I, Kosta Pechanatz got a French aviator to drop him in Serbia, there made so much trouble for the Germans that it took three Army divisions to quiet things down...
...wall behind white-bearded Leader Pechanatz hung a picture of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who shot and killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, thus started World War I. In a corner, on the floor, lay the bleached skeleton of a Chetnik hero. Said Leader Pechanatz, with a casual wave of his arm: "His mother comes to see me every few weeks. She often asks whose skeleton that is. I have never told her. I am hard, but not that hard...
Then Leader Pechanatz gravely handed Mrs. Mitchell a phial of poison, showed her how to sew it in the collar of her tunic so that she could suck it out, even though her hands were manacled. He told her to practice killing with a knife, by plunging and twisting it in a sack of flour. These amenities attended to, Leader Pechanatz gave Mrs. Mitchell a job as dispatch rider on his general staff. From a list of names before him, he crossed hers off. Said he: "We just cross the name off, my girl, because we consider you dead when...
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