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...pickup team of volunteers. A 47-year-old chief bosun's mate in the Seabees is the faculty's linguist. A onetime student at the Universities of Paris and Moscow and onetime lieutenant in the Czar's World War I army, he speaks French, German, Serbian, Bulgarian, Russian. Another Adak instructor is a music teacher who was once "Amos & Andy's" organist...
...gullied face. But before the plowing began, before he was even Tito, he was plain Josip Broz. His father was a Croat blacksmith in the village of Klanjec, near Zagreb. He had scarcely begun to learn his father's trade when the shot with which the Serbian nationalist, Govirlo Princip, killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, shot young Josip Broz into the Austrian Army...
...Bullitt writes that Marshal Tito's Army is 'killing Serbian peasants who are showing anti-Communist feelings with weapons received from America.' By this lie Bullitt gives himself away as a spy who has assimilated the instructions of German Fascist propaganda...
...German garrison troops still in Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Aegean might never be able to escape. They had held their own with the aid of 15 Bulgarian divisions. The hapless Bulgar troops did not yet know whether they should still fight-and, if so, on which side. Serbian Chetniks were found to be still aiding the Germans...
...This question does not turn on General Mihailovich alone. There is also a very large body, amounting perhaps to 200,000 Serbian peasant property owners, who are anti-German but strongly Serbian. . . . They are not as enthusiastic in regard to Communism as some of those in Croatia and Slovenia. Marshal Tito has largely sunk his Communistic aspect in his character as a Yugoslav patriotic leader. He has repeatedly proclaimed that he has no intention of reversing [Serbia's] property and social systems . . . but these facts are not accepted yet by the other side...