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...London last week Premier Slobodan Yovanovich resigned his post as head of Yugoslavia's Government in Exile. A six-month-old crisis besetting Yugoslavia's political remnants abroad was out in the open. Over two years of evasions, intergovernmental machinations and international blunders were paying off. The Yugoslav Government in Exile now faced the choice between firm action and oblivion. The choice would have to be made soon, for Britain, strongest supporter of the exiled Government, was fed up with watching the fumbling which has prejudiced the Yugoslav Government in the eyes of the world and brought...
...richest men in Yugoslavia, and the man who signed the U.S. master Lend-Lease agreement in 1942, Ninchich was a sacrifice in a Cabinet reshuffle designed to "achieve unity among various groups inside the country and to strengthen the Government." His place was taken by another oldster, Premier Slobodan Yovanovich, who announced that General Draja Mihailovich would continue (from inside embattled Yugoslavia) as Minister...
...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...
...serious-minded young King (who was christened with the mixed waters of Yugoslavia's three great rivers, the Sava, the Drava and the Danube) grew up as a Serb. His chief tutors were Professor Slobodan Jovanovitch of Belgrade University, who is sometimes called "Yugoslavia's intellectual conscience," and Chief of Staff General Kossitch. Peter also had an English tutor, C. C. Parrot, who taught him to like Robert Louis Stevenson and P. G. Wodehouse. As the time for his assumption of power approached (he will be 18 next September) Peter grew away from the influence of his uncle...
...Second Vice Premier he chose the "intellectual conscience," Slobodan Jovanovitch. The post of First Vice Premier he saved for the Croat leader, Vladimir Matchek...