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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...
Three Ministers were flatly opposed. They were Minister of Agriculture Chubrilovitch, Minister of Justice Mihajlo Konstantinovitch and Minister of Social Welfare Srdjan Budisavljevitch. All were members of the Serbian minority party and Dr. Chubrilovitch's brother was put to death by the Austrians for taking part in the assassination at Sarajevo. All three resigned from the Cabinet...
...Church swung into action. Bishop Nicholai of Belgrade preached a sermon against capitulation. Patriarch Gavrilo Dozitch of the Serbian Orthodox Church went to the White Palace to warn Prince Paul against giving the Germans power over the Church. Bishop Valerian Pribichevitch, brother of the late great Patriot Svetozar Pribichevitch, telegraphed his resignation to the Regent; it would become effective when Yugoslavia signed with Germany...
...Tipperary-a controversial song in the Balkans these days-and Oj Srbjo, a Serbian battle song, sounded and resounded until dawn. The crowds danced the wild Serbian kolo until they were exhausted. Even the mothers and fathers of young men who had just gone off to military stations joined in the shouting...
...Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked to travel by train; that the first full-dress meeting of the Yugoslav Crown Council since 1934 was called to discuss the angry anti-Nazi rumblings of the Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene clans, parties, secret societies and just plain rugged individualists; that when Adolf Hitler got impatient and began to wave an angry finger at the dotted line, Dragisha Cvetkovitch's physicians decided his health would not stand a trip to Berlin...