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...first sign that the Axis conquest would be different in Yugoslavia came when children locked themselves into their schoolrooms, scrawled anti-Nazi slogans on the blackboards. Then in a swift overnight coup d'état, General Simovich seized control of the Government, announced that Yugoslavia would defy the Axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Delayed Dispatch | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...London last week the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile did General Mihailovich proper honors; they made him Minister of War. At the same time General Dusan Simovich, who led last winter's revolt against the pro-Axis compromises of Regent Prince Paul, was succeeded as Premier by dwarfish, dynamic Slobodan Jovanovich, 72, a liberal, gifted historian and jurist who may be expected to harmonize all anti-Axis Yugoslav elements, Serb, Croat and Slovene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Island of Freedom | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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