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...dinars ($181,800) for "increasing sabotage and terrorist activities." Twelve Serbs were executed for illegal possession of weapons, 122 "Communist and Jewish saboteurs" were put to death in another mass execution. Somewhere in northern Yugoslavia 90 persons were killed to avenge the death of one German soldier and one puppet policeman. Germany was reported to have sent 25,000 more troops to Yugoslavia to deal with guerrillas. The death of General Ludwig von Schroeder, Military Governor of Belgrade, was announced in Berlin. (The British claimed his death was engineered by the Gestapo because he had protested against brutal treatment...
...Thailand. Under pressure, the Government of Premier Luang Pitul Songgram granted Japan a 10,000,000-baht ($3,600,000) loan, recognized Manchukuo as a token of friendship. (It was carefully explained that the recognition of Manchukuo had been chosen as a lesser evil than recognizing Puppet Wang Ching-wei at Nanking.) Japan continued pressing demands-demands which, if accepted, could end only in the capitulation of Thailand...
Logical choice for a puppet ruler of the puppet kingdom of Montenegro is Prince Michael Petrovitch, nephew of Italy's Queen Elena, grandson of Montenegro's last ruler, King Nicholas. The 36-year-old princeling, who has lived most of his life in exile in France, was recently chosen by the Axis as Montenegro's new Regent...
Last week came word that Prince Michael had turned the Axis kingmakers down flat. Said the Prince: "I am a Serb. As a Serb I shall never betray King Peter." After refusing the job, said London reports, the puppet-elect was promptly interned in Germany...
...trying in a few days to undo their work of the last two years. While the Non-Aggression Pact with Germany was in force Russia had nimbly followed the Nazis' lead, as one country after another fell prey to Hitler, disowning their exiled governments, recognizing German sovereignty or puppet regimes. Now, as a half-digested German conquest herself, she wanted to make friends...