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Czechs-in-exile hoped that this marked the end of perhaps the chillest atrocity chapter in modern history. But, two days later, the killings started anew. The German radio announced the execution of the onetime puppet Premier of Bohemia-Moravia, General Alois Elias, who had been sentenced to death eight months earlier...
...victims for the Heydrich funeral pyre. Often they chose those merely suspected of approving of the attack on Heydrich. But they did not find the two patriots, possibly Czech parachutists dropped from British planes, who had struck down the No. 2 Gestapoman. Dr. Emil Hácha, puppet President of the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, offered a 10,000,000-crown reward ($340,000 at pre-war exchange values) for the executioners of the Executioner. It was not good enough...
...freedom (TIME, May 25) came news last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total of 5,000 men in five months...
Last week King Ananada was summoned home, ostensibly to learn the language of Thailand's great new puppet-master, Japan. Whether he could get home through the British blockade remained a question...
After the fight came into the open on Easter Sunday, when all but 60 of the 1,100 ministers in 97%-Lutheran Norway's State Church quit their posts rather than cooperate with the puppet regime, Vidkun Quisling lost round after round...