Word: yugo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Twenty-three years before, he had been koum to Peter's father, King Alexander I of Yugo slavia, who married Princess Marie of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria...
Then Russia took a hand. In Tiflis (Stalin's old home town), a Free Yugo slavia radio station was set up. From it the news about Tito's Partisans was broad cast to the world. But Tiflis was three weeks by courier from Yugoslavia. News from Tito was always late...
...Government in Exile. The new Premier was Dr. Ivan Subasich, a Croat, who was in Manhattan when the summons came. In Bari, on the Italian coast, he sat down with Tito, roughed out a working agreement. The exiled Gov ernment recognized Tito as head of his provisional administration inside Yugo slavia. Tito agreed that at war's end Yugo slavs would get a chance to vote for what ever kind of government they wanted. Meanwhile, the King might continue to call himself King...
...three latest fugitive bigwigs to be chased out of their country by the rolling swastika fled first last week to hard-pressed Athens, then to Jerusalem. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. They were 17-year-old King Peter of Yugo slavia, his 22-day Premier, General Dusan Simovitch, and Dr. Vladimir Matchek, Vice Premier and Croat Peasant Leader. About all they took with them was the grim satisfaction that Adolf Hitler will have a tough time making that...
...true Balkan fashion, one excitement was leading to another. As Yugo slavia fought its last battles, word came of border clashes between Rumania and Hungary over the portions of Transylvania handed to Hungary last year by the Axis, and of a threatened coup d'état in Rumania by the irascible Iron Guard. It ∙ looked as though Hitler was due to discover that even a smashing victory would not keep the Balkens quiet...