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Southern Slav Songs (Zinka Milanov, soprano; Sonart; 6 sides). Ingratiating melodies that sound Russian, Italian, Hungarian and Viennese in turn, sung in Serbo-Croatian. Recording: excellent...
Stoyan was flown into Yugoslavia early this month, landed ten miles behind the fighting front, was driven in a captured German Volkswagen to Marshal Tito's mountain stronghold (TIME, May 22). He is the first U.S. newsman to meet Tito face to face (they talked in Serbo-Croatian), the first correspondent able to short-circuit an interpreter and talk directly with the guerrillas, the first American reporter to enter Yugoslavia at all since Pulitzer Prize Winner Daniel De Luce got in and out of the country seven months...
...talk was in Serbo-Croatian. Tito speaks calmly and deliberately, with a faint trace of a Slovenian accent, and lets himself be interrupted at will. He speaks perfect German and Russian as well as some French. He reads English fluently and understands the talk pretty well, but is too shy to speak English for fear of mistakes...
...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...