Word: serbo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...growing crisis their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...
Brought into the open, with the aid of recent documented evidence of conditions within Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 14), was the inability of the Cabinet to secure two important things: 1) a Serbo-Croat agreement about the future (i.e., Greater Serbia or Federated Yugoslavia); 2) an agreement between Mihailovich and Yugoslav Partisans to stop fighting each other and unite in fighting the Axis...
...Government. Last week in the town of Bihatch, capital of the liberated area, 53 delegates from all over Yugoslavia met and elected as President of the Assembly Ivan Ribar, a Croat Catholic lawyer, member of the Serbo-Croat Democratic Party and son of the first President of the National Constitutional Assembly which met in 1918 to organize the State which became Yugoslavia...
...controlled an army estimated to be 200,000 to 300,000 strong. Neither the army nor the government is "Communist" or "bandit," though some of the leaders, particularly in the army, are Communists. The National Liberation movement is mainly peasant in character, and includes many members of the Serbo-Croat Democratic Party and other peasant organizations-Croat, Serb and Slovene...
Peoples who know no English heard it in translations and summaries short-waved from the U.S. at intervals all night long. The translators worked fast, getting it out in French, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Italian, German, Polish, Serbo-Croat, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Czech. Beamed to the Orient by San Francisco's KGEI were summaries in Dutch, in Cantonese dialect, in Mandarin dialect, in Japanese...