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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...
Civil war in Yugoslavia's craggy hills, a weeks-long Cabinet crisis in the London Government in Exile were the fruits of Occupied Yugoslavia's heroic struggle against the Axis. General Draja Mihailovich, the Serb hero, stood accused of treason after bitter, bloody battles against the Partisans who opposed his dream of a Greater Serbia (TIME...