Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategists read into Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham's dramatic appearance with his fleet in the Adriatic last week a gesture of warning and defiance to the Germans: let them not dare to try smuggling troopships down behind the islands along the Yugoslav coast. The R. A. F. bombed an oil refinery near Venice, aimed at a bridge near Fiume, and repeatedly smashed at Mannheim, a rail junction through which German munitions bound for Italy would pass...
...General Papagos. In private life a patrician to his long fingertips, a foppish lover of fine horses and a patron of racing, his lifelong study has been a huge collection of military books. John Metaxas' name went upon the defense system thrown up along the Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders, which were later extended hastily down the Al banian. But in General Papagos' head rests knowledge of every gully and goat track not only in the Greek mountains but far beyond. Like his soldiers, whom amazed correspondents found toiling with out lanterns at midnight to repair bridges...
...Yugoslav, a Greek, a Hungarian, an Englishwoman, two Swedes, several Americans - and one Italian - sang an Italian opera in Manhattan one night last week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang...
...whom the Adriatic lands would fall in the New Order in Europe. It was also possible that the German program might involve a march through Yugoslavia into northern Greece-the sort of march about which Yugoslavia would not be consulted. There was no way of reconciling these things with Yugoslav membership in the Axis...
Corizza is the crossroads through which Italy, unless she violates Yugoslav neutrality and goes around by the Monastir Gap (Bitolj), must pass to strike at Salonika. It is also a gateway to loannina (Yanina) and the long rough road to Athens. Pounding and pushing the Italians out of Corizza was a feat of which the strategic importance overshadowed even the valor of the men who did it. The town stands at an elevation of 2,500 ft. on the western scarp of the Morava heights. Its defense against assault from the west and north, whence Italy must try to come...