Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Roosevelt had been set back. Day later, the Yugoslav leaders who had signed with Hitler were out of office, under arrest; King Peter II was on the throne. Crowds stood cheering, waving U. S., British and Yugoslav flags, before the U. S. legation in Belgrade. Youngish, thin-lipped Arthur Bliss Lane, U. S. Minister, had to push his way through overjoyed celebrators to carry his message to the new Government. Hitler, not Roosevelt, had been set back. But still bigger news for the long term was that U. S. foreign policy had begun to prove effective...
...Washington, Constantin Fotitch, short, shy and excitable Yugoslav Minister, rushed to see Sumner Welles, came out shining-eyed to cable his joy to King Peter II over "Your Majesty's ascent to the noble throne. . . ." Mr. Welles, less austere than usual, received the press, told the newsmen of the latest message to the U. S. Minister to Yugoslavia: that under the terms of the Lend-Lease Act, President Roosevelt would be able to send material aid to nations resisting aggression. It was a promise to the new Yugoslav Government that it could count...
...Hurry. Spring was about to burst upon Europe. Peace must be brought to the Balkans so that Adolf Hitler could devote his best energies to Britain. If Yugoslavia would not join the Axis outright, Hitler would be reasonable. He would settle for partial adherence, with the right to use Yugoslav railways for "supply trains"; then, having cracked the shell of resistance, he could enforce his full demands later on. This sort of reasonableness fooled nobody, least of all Yugoslavia's leaders, but they thought it was better than war against the German machines. Better to be a Sweden than...
...Cabinet. A special train with steam up waited in Belgrade's railroad station to take Ministers Cvetkovitch and Cincar-Markovitch to Vienna to sign on Hitler's dotted line. During those four days & nights much happened. British and Greek diplomats worked feverishly in Belgrade to swing the Yugoslav Government to their side. The British made it clear that if Britain won the war with Yugoslavia on the German side, Yugoslavia's dream of a pan-Slavic State in the Balkans would be ended. The Greeks made it equally clear that even permission to the Germans to send...
...Yugoslav Army was sleeping in its boots and side arms. Pamphlets strewn in the streets of Belgrade threatened assassination for the men who had capitulated...