Word: serbia
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...voices that rose in song as the stars came out diminished in strength, hollower and deeper. Perhaps there were fewer students and children and more of the elders who had reflected during the day upon what Serbia and all Yugoslavia must face in the coming days. At any rate, the fighting chorus that rose from the vast crowds tonight, 'Sprenite, Sprenite, Chetnice,' sounded to some listeners as if it were no less a battle cry than a benediction...
...high-handedly for years. The Croats could exact a high price for their allegiance, for Croatia could not be defended. Even complete autonomy would hardly pay them for the loss of their homes, if Germany attacked Yugoslavia. As one old Serb said to the ubiquitous Ray Brock: "In Serbia, if you find a single piece of furniture older than 30 years, it has probably been imported from Croatia or somewhere else. We Serbs had to fight, and time and again we have lost everything in defense of our honor and our integrity. The Croats-well, they still have their furniture...
There was little more the new Government of Yugoslavia could do but prepare to face what came. But even if Hitler detached Croatia from Serbia, that would not get him at the Greeks. To reach them he would have to fight the Serbs in their own mountains or risk exposing his flank. Either course would be hazardous. At week's end Premier General Simovitch sternly demanded of his people that they stand fast and "if destiny so orders it, give their lives for the good of their homes, their fatherland and King...
There is a Serbian proverb, from the time of the Turks, which says that when Serbia is threatened the peasants pick up their guns and sing. Serbia's peasants marched and sang last week. So did the peasants of Bosnia, of Macedonia and of Montenegro. At Kragujevac in Old Serbia they marched round & round the village singing Oi Serbio! At Skoplje in South Serbia they sang Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis...
...father was a prospering chemist. The young man went to Columbia, decided to be a writer, switched to biology, then to medicine. When he saw that most of his patients were scared by his fanatical thoroughness, he turned to research and teaching. During World War I he went to Serbia to fight the typhus which ravaged that country after the Austrian invasion, later served with the U. S. Army in France in the Medical Corps. For the past 17 years he was professor of bacteriology at Harvard, periodically traipsed over the world in pursuit of his typhus research. He once...