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Like a fresh wind blowing in from the sea, the campaign spread over Europe. V, which stood for victory in English and victoire in French, became vryheid (freedom) in Dutch, vitezstvi (victory) in Czech, vitestvo (heroism) in Serbian, and in Norwegian ve vil vinne, which means just what it sounds like in pidgin English...
Last week, according to a report on the Budapest radio, the Prince had moved, was ensconced in the royal residence in Belgrade. It appeared that the Axis had found just whom it wanted to head a Serbian puppet State...
...kingdoms are not always permanent. For the present, however, Il Duce and his King Aimone will have the loyalty of Poglavnik Pavelitch, who plotted the assassination of King Alexander for Il Duce, then hid out in Italy for seven years until he could help in the assassination of Yugoslavia. Serbian komitajis had a better idea: in their list of men marked for assassination, Pavelitch's name led all the rest...
...Hitler was not resorting to Napoleon's trick of announcing losses of only a fraction of those actually incurred, these were amazingly low figures for German casualties. Herr Hitler also announced that his troops had captured 320,062 "purely Serbian prisoners," 218,000 Greeks, all of whom may be freed, and over 9,000 British Empire troops...
...kept under armed guard in a major's automobile. At last they parked in a cherry orchard outside Belgrade. It was 6 in the morning; the major said he would deal with him when he woke at 9. In time's nick he was saved by a Serbian editor, a reserve colonel...