Word: regente
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...Conspirators. All that happened between then and sunrise, when 17-year-old Peter Karageorgevitch proclaimed himself King Peter II, may never be known except to the few who made those three hours of history. What happened at the White Palace of the Prince Regent was shrouded in blackest secrecy...
...weakling, prodded by his wife, Princess Olga of Greece (whose sister is Britain's Duchess of Kent), into immense ambitions, even the ambition to rule all the Slavs, including the Russians. These people said Hitler played on Prince Paul's ambition. Certain it is that Regent Prince Paul struggled for days to get together a Cabinet that would yield to Hitler's demands. Certain it is that before he was deposed he found himself in the power of Adolf Hitler...
Yugoslavia's signature to the Axis pact brought the latent conflict between the young King and the Regent to the surface, as it brought to the surface the indignation of the Serbian people and the Army, which is predominantly Serbian. Between Peter and General Simovitch. leader of the conspiracy, General Kossitch acted as go between. When the Army struck, Peter knew all about...
Thursday night Regent Prince Paul called a meeting of his Cabinet, the first in nearly five months, to announce the terms of Germany's virtual ultimatum. Yugoslavia's handsome, youthful Regent is personally friendly toward Great Britain, but he is not made of the same tough stuff as was his late cousin, King Alexander, and unlike Alexander he has tried hard to placate the autonomy-minded Croats. Against the virtual certainty of 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...
...Nicholai of Belgrade preached a sermon against capitulation. Patriarch Gavrilo Dozitch of the Serbian Orthodox Church went to the White Palace to warn Prince Paul against giving the Germans power over the Church. Bishop Valerian Pribichevitch, brother of the late great Patriot Svetozar Pribichevitch, telegraphed his resignation to the Regent; it would become effective when Yugoslavia signed with Germany...