Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to know exactly what the celebrations were about. Yugoslavia certainly had no reason to be explosively cheerful: Nazi pressure was putting its last exquisitely painful touches on the Yugoslav body politic...
Probably the celebrants were happy because they suddenly realized Yugoslavia's fleeting power. For a giddy moment, Yugoslavia was the most powerful nation in Europe. For an hour, Yugoslavia was stopping Hitler. The Yugoslavs realized that until Hitler was sure of them, he preferred to undertake no new adventure in the Balkans. He could scarcely afford to attack Greece from Bulgaria alone-through what the Yugoslavs could make a deathtrap, the Struma River Valley. He would have to be sure first of the Yugoslav flank; he would like to have Yugoslavia's broader, safer Vardar Valley...
...Victor von Heeren strongly urged adherence to the Axis pact, and offered a plane to carry Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked to travel by train; that the first full-dress meeting of the Yugoslav Crown Council since 1934 was called to discuss the angry anti-Nazi rumblings of the Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene clans, parties, secret societies and just plain rugged individualists; that when Adolf Hitler got impatient and began to wave an angry finger at the dotted line, Dragisha Cvetkovitch's physicians...
Refugee colonists-Czechs, Poles, Belgians, Dutch, Rumanians, Jews, "De Gaullists"-were already clearing out as fast as they could get visas. Yugoslav oppositionists handed Prince Paul a memorandum complaining that the people were being told nothing. Presently police raided the headquarters of the oppositionist Democratic Party, seized its manifestoes and its leader, Milan Grol. It all had the familiar odor of the Hitler approach. At week's end it was reported that Yugoslavia had arranged a "compromise" with Adolf-Yugoslavia would be "nonaggressive" and would allow the Nazis to move down the Vardar Valley toward Greece. Next...
...month ago Yugoslav Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch had conversations with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. Last week it was repeatedly reported and denied (by interested parties) that Prince Paul himself had spent part of the week in the same place. Britain also was making representations to Yugoslavia, but the British Ministry was suddenly alarmed to learn that although Bulgaria had signed the Axis pact only the week before, Boris of Bulgaria had actually agreed to the Axis demands last November. Britain promptly told her subjects to leave Yugoslavia...