Word: serb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Puppet Croatia was in turmoil: desertions mounted in her puppet army, and her politicians sought a safe way from the German camp. Russian sources reported that the Partisans had seized a stretch of the Dalmatian coast below Fiume. Hungarian sources reported that Adolf Hitler, apparently dissatisfied with the puppet Serb Government of General Milan Nedich, had also summoned to Berchtesgaden ex-Premier Dragisha Cvetkovich. Swarthy, ambitious Dragisha Cvetkovich had visited Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1941, then had allied Yugoslavia with the Axis. A popular revolt had repudiated him. After his country's defeat, he had lived...
Yugoslavs & Serbs. Last January Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich resigned. His resignation was a defeat for those groups which were working for postwar Serb domination of Yugoslavia. Candidate for the Foreign Minister's post was liberal Serb Milan Grol, Minister for Communications, who had the support of three of the five Serb parties, as well as of the Croats and Slovenes in the Government. But the two pan-Serb parties threatened to quit the Government if Grol became Foreign Minister, and so Premier Yovanovich took the portfolio...
...Payoff. Two weeks ago, Premier Yovanovich told the Cabinet that the Allies desired an unequivocal statement of policy, that only one statement of policy was possible: a united Yugoslavia, with equal federal rights for Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, based on democratic liberties and a progressive social regime. Up jumped Serb Liberal Grol: "This is what we have wanted all along and what you have prevented all along. If this is to be our new policy, it is exactly you who cannot be in charge...
...last-minute move to achieve a compromise between the pro-Yugoslav and pan-Serb groups, Jovan Banjanin, former Minister of Forests and Mines, was chosen to form a new Government. The issue remained unsolved...
...Secretary Sumner Welles felt his way through labyrinthine American emotions toward a formula for a postwar world (see p. 24). In all this hullabaloo, one small voice put the problem squarely to the powers which after all must solve it. Said Milan Grol, Yugoslav Minister of Communications and liberal Serb candidate for the vacant post of Foreign Minister in the exiled government...