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...Yugoslavs arrested former Premier Milan Stoyadinovich, an old hunting companion of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, and spirited him away to the Serbian mountains, where, as police officials remarked cryptically, "even an airplane cannot land." The signature of Prince Paul's onetime right-hand man was found on papers which gave 50 German agents permission to "prospect for oil" along the fortified frontier between Yugoslavia and the Reich...
...Ultimatum" is the story of a Serbian officer and his doting Austrian wife, whom that intangible machine called "statesmanship" stamps as enemies after the murder of Archduke Francis Ferdinand. The love of wife and of fatherland, faith to friend and to country, are pitched into battle: and the results are tragical, as may be expected. But they are not altogether convincing, since it is less the stupidity of war than an all around desire for self-sacrifice which brings about the final catastrophe. The piece de resistance of the show is Eric Von Stroheim's Tentenie skull, which, as Germanophobes...
Balkan term for Yugoslavia's long-deferred, long-discussed accord between the Serbian majority and the Croat minority is sporazum. Last week sporazum dramatically demonstrated how much Europe's tension had accelerated the growth of Balkan nationalism despite external pressure, internal dissension. In post-War Yugoslav history the sporazum was blocked by determination of 7,500,000 Serbs (Serbian Eastern Orthodox) not to share Yugoslavia's rule with 4,500,000 Croats (Roman Catholic), and the tenacity of Croatian struggles, the ruthlessness of Serbian repression, gave Croats the reputation of being one of the worst-treated minorities...
...this gave venerable Dr. Vladimir Matchek, democratically minded Croatian peasant leader, 'a powerful but dangerous weapon in his battle for Croatian rights. Three weeks ago he announced that Croatia would ask for German protection rather than continue to submit to Serbian rule. When Yugoslavian Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch began negotiations, in the midst of Balkan alarms, Dr. Matchek took time out to say what he thought of the people he was dealing with. Said he: "We Croatians are wholeheartedly for an agreement, but if none is reached we'll be obliged to go our separate ways. If the Serbs...