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That afternoon I watched from a hill the burning of Drvar and counted 80 German planes that bombed the surrounding cliffs. In the evening an old peasant a Serb of ancient make, hung a kettle on a chain above the wood fire lit on the earthen floor of his hut, cooked pura (corn gruel), and invited me and some 20 refugee women and children to dinner. There I saw a child, bayoneted through the right upper arm by the Germans, and listened to accounts of German atrocities...
...Bomb and the Road. A handsome Serb major of 27 was a sergeant pilot in the Air Force when the Germans came, in April 1941. He saved his aged Potez biplane by taking off during a strafing by 25 Messerschmitts and flying to his home in Kraljevo. Ten days later, when the armistice was announced, he joined the new Partisan movement, became the leader of 200 men. His band grew to 1,500. They once attacked a German motor column by rolling an airplane bomb fitted with dynamite blocks and lighted fuses down a mountainside. The bomb blew...
Inside the Embassy, while candles of the Serb and Greek Orthodox churches lighted the scene, 20-year-old Peter and 23-year-old Alexandra exchanged their wedding vows...
...Royalist Serbs shook their heads over Peter's impatient ardor. They remembered the dynasty's unwritten law: while the country is held by an enemy, the ruler must stay in mourning. Peter I had imposed the rule in World War I; he had marched with his Serb troops into exile, observed the ritual of grief, not even shaving, until the day of liberation. Serb émigrés, already uneasy lest Peter II throw in his lot with Tito, now feared that he would further shake his standing among those still loyal to him in the faction-split...
Pointedly referring to those who still oppose Tito and cry up Serb General Mihailovich, General Simovich said: "The slogans of the defense of the threatened Serbdom and of the struggle against Communism are only masks to conceal the personal ambitions of individuals . . . the interests of profiteers and grafters whose aims are opposite to the sentiments of the great part of the Serbs and to the common interests of the Serbs and of Yugoslavia...