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...point there was no dispute. The Serbs have fighting courage, not just ordinary courage like Englishmen or Germans, but fanatical courage that awes everyone who has to do with them. Two tales told last week exemplify it: >In 1912 a Serbian komitaji (guerrilla), having been captured by the Turks, was sentenced to death. Before the firing squad the Turkish commander cynically asked him: "Have you ever been in a worse predicament?" He replied: "Twice-on two occasions friends came to my house and I had no bread to offer them." > A Serbian general ordered a colonel to lead his troops...
...fighting ability is simple physical strength. Altogether Yugoslavia can muster about 30 trained divisions totaling perhaps 650,000 troops, fierce men all. These men have plenty of rifles, a considerable number of machine guns, field and pack artillery. They are beautifulty equipped, in short, to be hornets in the Serbian hills, to carry on the sort of warfare in which the Greeks had given the Axis its first trimming...
Yugoslavia's signature to the Axis pact brought the latent conflict between the young King and the Regent to the surface, as it brought to the surface the indignation of the Serbian people and the Army, which is predominantly Serbian. Between Peter and General Simovitch. leader of the conspiracy, General Kossitch acted as go between. When the Army struck, Peter knew all about...
...solidly against the fronts of the big buildings in the long diagonal Terazia. From the two main avenues and from every side street the masses of people poured in and converged, separated and converged again until the huge diagonal held 6,000, later 10,000, 40,000 shouting, singing Serbian men and women...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was once U. S. consul at Fiume, was once official interpreter at Ellis Island, speaks eight languages. Morning after the news of Belgrade's coup d'etat, he paused in a turmoil of annual budgetmaking, announced in spotless Serbian: "Zora puca bit ce dana!" (The dawn is breaking...