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...basis of its original purpose to promote international amity. Among those who have needled the Fuhrer over its facilities have been Dorothy Thompson, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Norway's Carl J. Hambro. But none has packed the wallop of cultured, greying, 46-year-old Dr. Svetislav-Sveta Petrovitch, author of last fortnight's appeals to the Yugoslavs...
...veteran journalist with a captain's commission in the Yugoslav Army, Dr. Petrovitch has been haranguing his countrymen from across their borders ever since 1939. Before then he was Paris correspondent for the Belgrade Pravda and so bitter about the Nazis that Berlin put on the screws to have him silenced. Unable to send dispatches, he suggested that the French permit him to short-wave his stuff twice a day. When the Nazis moved into France, Dr. Petrovitch fled to Vichy, making talks from towns along the line of retreat. Finally Petain ordered him to shut up, whereupon...
Through his great & good friend Hamilton Fish Armstrong, onetime U.S. military attaché in Belgrade, now editor of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Petrovitch got a berth on WRUL, a 50,000-watt powerhouse, last fall. Conditions under which he agreed to operate were simple: a two-month trial at broadcasting three times a week, with no interference from anyone. Within three weeks, the State Department was advised by Arthur Bliss Lane, its Minister in Belgrade, that Dr. Petrovitch was becoming a potent force in Yugoslavia, that he ought to be aired every...
Regents: Prince Paul, Dr. Radenko Stankovitch, Dr. Ivo Petrovitch...
...Kovno, Lithuania, a gentleman disappeared. The local soviet announced a reward "for the finding of the corpse of Judge Dmitri Petrovitch, believed to have been drowned in the Neva. Height, six feet; hair, black; eyes, brown; special identification: he stutters...