Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...restock it. Amid the culture carnage of World War II, the second destruction of Louvain (in 1940) was a mere incident. What the Nazis didn't burn, bomb or pilfer from Europe's libraries, they fed into pulping machines to make new paper. The library of the Yugoslav Ministry of War was sold to a junk dealer for 180,000 dinars (about...
...would peacemaking be resumed? While Byrnes and Bevin regularly saw the French and Chinese Ambassadors, the authoritative New Times said that Russia favored continued (and exclusive) meetings of the Big Three. Meanwhile, Jimmy Byrnes tried some personal peacemaking in the Balkans. He agreed to recognize Tito's Yugoslav Republic, though pointing to "its failure to implement the guarantee of personal freedom" laid down at Yalta. Bevin followed suit. At London, Byrnes had tried to ease the tension by recognizing Hungary. Washington thought he might now do the same with Rumania and Bulgaria, though their one-front regimes were...
...caustic composer-critic Virgil Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
...bugs in the head." Milanov used to weigh over 200 Ibs., but has lost 50 of them, largely by daily rides on an electric bicycle in her apartment overlooking Central Park. She still eats as many steaks as she can find, and cooks two hearty Yugoslav dishes - sarma (stuffed cabbage) and burek (meat and onion, wrapped in thin dough). Says she: "To look at me I still have plenty of flesh." When she made her debut in Yugoslavia at 19, she could sing only in Croatian. When Bruno Walter discovered her in Vienna, she had also learned to sing...
Relations between the Vatican and Belgrade have been shaky since Marshal Tito rose to power. A recent letter to Pope Pius XII from the Yugoslav Episcopate made them even worse. The letter accused the Tito Government of closing Catholic schools, suppressing all Catholic newspapers and substituting civil marriages for religious ceremonies. Since the war's end. the letter added, 243 Yugoslav priests had been killed, 169 imprisoned...