Word: slovenia
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...Partisans, likewise roughly 150,000 strong, were in control in Slovenia and western Bosnia. They were fighting with great vigor against Germans, Italians and any Yugoslav groups whom they suspected of collaborating with the invaders. In rate of numerical growth and in military aggressiveness the Partisans had left Mihailovich's guerrillas behind. Mihailovich leaned heavily on the inactive Government in Exile, and for this reason many of his less enthusiastic followers had joined the Partisans...
...America the Rev. John LaFarge, SJ described Nazi treatment of Catholic Slovenia as "a hell deliberately planned by Adolf Hitler, out of his diabolical hatred for Christ and His Church." Local priests are being replaced by Germans, and in one diocese 65% of the priests have already been arrested...
Italy's other conquest of the week fell even more quietly. As Germany without fuss took what she wanted of Slovenia, Rome announced with nourishes that it had "annexed" the Slovene border city of Ljubljana, set up an "autonomous province of Ljubljana." The Romans pulled out of there in the Fifth Century...
...Germany went the northwest province of Slovenia, which with its German minority had been until 1918 part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
...Orthodox Synod proceeded to excommunicate temporarily almost every Orthodox member of the Cabinet this week, including Premier Stoyadinovich, whom it denied the ministrations of the Church, and implied that Regent Paul might have been excommunicated had he not so carefully stood aloof. Cautiously the Regent returned from Slovenia, hastened to the Cathedral, kissed the ikon upon the bier of the Patriarch, fervently prayed and was besought to "Dismiss Stoyadinovich...