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...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...
Last week occupied Europe took Hitler's words to heart. The conquered wanted freedom and revenge. Not by prayer, but by civil war, they sought it. The Slav peoples of central and southeastern Europe, as if they heard some far-off blood call of their cousins on the plains of Russia, sprang into bloody action...
...result of the Battle of Russia may well be millions of Russian workers to swell the Nazi labor battalions; new Slav divisions to swell the Nazi Armies. Where can Britain and the U.S. turn for man power to offset this menacing mass? If Britain is democracy's European bastion, the U.S. democracy's arsenal, China is its untapped source of vast potential fighting power. Chiang's war messages make it clear that he has long been waiting for the democracies to see this point. If they do not, they can be sure that Hitler will...
...trim and flexible devil's advocate. Her dancers follow her through a series of jazz-heated formations. The accompaniment of one of them is true, improvised boogie-woogie by Pianist Sidney Tuscher of the hand-picked pit orchestra. Staged by the Russian choreographer George Balanchine, fellow Slav of Composer Duke (real name Vladimir Dukelsky), Cabin in the Sky is proof that for fun and verve there is nothing like a theatrical League of Races...
...last week clapped into jail a onetime police chief of Belgrade, Milan Achimovich. Slovene Nationalists issued a manifesto attacking Germany and Italy, which the Italian press promptly blamed on Allied intrigue. A Yugoslav trade commission reached Moscow and presumably talked also about diplomatic recognition of and by the big Slav brother. But Italy and Germany were on Yugoslavia's doorstep and Russia was far away...