Word: slavic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Continent to fight the Axis, Yugoslavia last week transferred its army high command from Cairo back to the homeland and made hawk-beaked, fabulous General Draja Mihailovich chief of staff. Because some of his most effective support comes from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...
...Company. At the same time, the following executives were chosen: President, Seth T. Gano '07, of Boston; Vice-President, Fred N. Robinson '91 of Cambridge; Acting Corresponding Secretary, Reginald H. Phelps '30, instructor in German and Assistant Dean of the College; and, Marshal, Samuel H. Cross '12, professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
Through four years at Colgate University and a postgraduate course at Harvard, he managed to retain a slight Russian accent and his intimate ties with the good Russian earth. "I," he sometimes says with a Slavic spreading of hands, "am a peasant." Fee fi fo fum. When the Bolsheviks began to "liquidate the kulaks [successful farmers] as a class," Journalist Hindus dashed over to Russia to see what was happening to his fellow peasants. Result of his observations was Humanity Uprooted, a best-seller whose thesis was that it may be tough to be collectivized by force, tougher still...
...rebels, Jews and Communists." Unquestionably they are rebels. Unquestionably some are Jews, some are Marxist Communists of one shade or another. Many more, probably, are Balkan "Communists," which usually means partisans of the country as against the city, the farmer as against the businessman. These people in general have Slavic, pro-Russian (Tsarist or Stalinist) leanings. The United Nations press has often referred to Mihailovich's forces as Chetniks -the name of a Serbian patriotic body which long fought guerrilla wars against Serbia's oppressors. Doubtless many are Chetniks or their descendants. But Mi-hailovich's army...
Folk Songs of the U.S.S.R. (Red Army Chorus. Pyatnitzky Chorus, soloists; Keynote; 8 sides). Some of the deep feeling, childish simplicity and vein of fatalism of the Russian people shines through these well-chosen songs, which include Stepan Razin, tale of the Slavic Robin Hood. But the recordings, made in the U.S.S.R., are fuzzily inadequate...