Word: slovenian
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...talk was in Serbo-Croatian. Tito speaks calmly and deliberately, with a faint trace of a Slovenian accent, and lets himself be interrupted at will. He speaks perfect German and Russian as well as some French. He reads English fluently and understands the talk pretty well, but is too shy to speak English for fear of mistakes...
...Railroad. A 30-year-old Slovenian private lost his wife and five-year-old son when the Italians came to his town. His mother and sister were sent to forced labor in Germany. The private joined the Liberation Movement. When the Allies invaded Sicily, the Germans were using Trieste as an embarkation point for southern Italy. Each day for a month the private and his fellow Partisans cut the German-controlled railroad from Ljubljana to Trieste. The Germans cut down the forest on either side of the right of way, installed high-tension wires, built pillboxes every 500 yards...
...their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...
Civil War. Axis strategy in Yugoslavia, as elsewhere, has been to create disunity that would lead to the annihilation of "inferior" peoples. German agents supply arms to Slovenian "White Guard" militia who fight the Partisans. They support quisling regimes. As Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Moslems, Clericals, Communists and Democrats swelled the Partisan ranks, the Axis has supported anyone who would fight the Partisans...
...economize by closing their 93-year-old school, alma mater of such celebrities as Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Cinema Tough Guy Edward G. Robinson. Language classes wrote letters in French, Spanish, Italian, Latin, protesting to the Mayor (who understands Italian, French, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Croatian, Slovenian). At 1:40 the sit-downers called...