Word: pesitch
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...losing Croatia and its neighbors if the German demands were resisted, Prince Paul advised their acceptance. His Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch, and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch agreed. So, naturally, did the Croatian Vice Premier, Vladimir Matchek, and Father Fran Kulovetch, the Slovene leader. The Minister of War, General Petar Pesitch, was doubtful...
...Army was mobilized, 1,000,000 strong, and most of the Army was ready to fight for independence. General Dusan Simovitch, Chief of the Air Force, was one of these. But War Minister Pesitch was old and frightened; he would not give the order. On whether the Army obeyed its leaders, or revolted under its younger officers, depended the fate of the last and hardest neutral nut that Hitler has tried to crack with his pincers...
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