Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Hitler wanted: 1) five additional Rumanian divisions to join the 16 already active on the Russian front; 2) more Hungarian troops for Russia; 3) a Bulgarian declaration of war against the Soviet Union; 4) a speedy end to the Yugoslav guerrillas; 5) cessation of inner Balkan disputes and concentration on fighting Bolshevism; 6) continued shipments of Balkan agricultural products to Germany...
...eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...
...next fall Composer Bartok will have ready for publication a fat, scholarly book containing 75 of the best Yugoslav love songs. Whatever happens to heroic Draja Mihailovich and his warriors, the voice of Yugoslavia will be preserved...
...however, because such stories provided a convenient excuse to Italy's Nazi masters for not sending more Italian divisions to the Russian front. And quite a few of those difficulties could be traced to Italian ways: some of Il Duce's quartermasters were selling arms to their Yugoslav foes...