Word: serb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before World War II Zagreb had been the center of Croat resistance to Yugoslavia's dominant Serbs. Croats had clamored for autonomy, had got a measure of it in 1939. They got a different kind from the Nazis, who set up a separate Croat state. Ante Pavelich became its puppet premier and its army grew to one-and-a half divisions of quisling Croatian troops, plus enough Italian regulars and Black Shirts to control it. But, as Ante Pavelich soon found out, this was not what some Croats wanted. He dared not go out in the streets without...
...Serb. The once-obscure Balkan officer who has thus far successfully challenged the modern world's greatest conqueror was born 47 years ago in Chachak, Serbia, in the craggy lands which he now clasps. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by an uncle, a musical Serbian colonel. Draja Mihailovich plays the mandolin excellently. He entered Belgrade's Serbian Military Academy at 15. He has been a lifelong soldier, an officer who got his training under fire. He is also profoundly a Serb. For those who know the Serbs, that fact alone would...
Draja Mihailovich, 47, is a stocky, jovial father of five who with equal spirit plays the mandolin and fights. Born in Ivanjica, Serbia, in the territory he now holds, he was raised, after the early death of his parents, by an uncle who was a Serb colonel. Draja went to the Serbian Military Academy at 15, was wounded fighting the Turks in 1913 and the Austrians...
After World War I he spent years in Yugoslav staff activity, became an expert on Nazi fifth-column activity. Early in 1940 he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for "disloyalty" in filing documents on the fifth column with Regent Prince Paul and the Serb quisling-to-be, General Milutin Nedich. Friends near the high command had Mihailovich freed...
...same time General Dusan Simovich, who led last winter's revolt against the pro-Axis compromises of Regent Prince Paul, was succeeded as Premier by dwarfish, dynamic Slobodan Jovanovich, 72, a liberal, gifted historian and jurist who may be expected to harmonize all anti-Axis Yugoslav elements, Serb, Croat and Slovene...