Word: yugoslavian
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...made by an unreconstructed Communist. Russia was their traditional protector, their only one if Germany should lose the war. Bulgaria could give her material aid: in Rumanian-held Bessarabia, now in the path of the Red Army, was a potential fifth column of over 150,000 Bulgars; in Yugoslavian Macedonia, Bulgarian troops were doing German guard duty against pro-Russian Marshal Tito's Partisans (some Bulgars had already joined his ranks...
...film is almost 100% good, rich Hope, uncomplicated by music, choruses or rival gagsters. For support he has Dorothy Lamour, fully dressed for the first time since The Fleet's In, and a prepossessing newcomer-a Yugoslavian refugee named Lenore Aubert, who may make people forget Hedy Lamarr. There is also Mary Byrne, who left a job as a Washington secretary to play a Washington secretary. But in They Got Me Covered the girls merely serve as feeders for Bob Hope. The Young Master takes charge of nearly every scene...
Presently he submitted a memorandum warning that a pro-Nazi Fifth Column threatened Yugoslavian unity and full mobilization in case of attack. War Minister Milan Neditch, now Hitler's Serbian Quisling, asked Mihailovich to withdraw his memorandum. He refused, and was sentenced to 30 days of military arrest for "disloyalty." He was freed at the instigation of Inspector General Bogoljub Illich, who is now in London with the Yugoslavian Government-in-Exile...
Sumadija. When Hitler's Stukas bombed Belgrade on April 6, 1941, Mihailovich had a coastal command in Herzegovina. As the Nazis overwhelmed General Dusan Simovich's bravely fighting army, Mihailovich retreated eastward into mountainous Sumadija, where Serbia had long fought the Turks. Thousands of disbanded or unmobilized Yugoslavian troops joined him, bringing their arms and equipment. The force was swelled by peasants and mountaineers...
...name of a Serbian patriotic body which long fought guerrilla wars against Serbia's oppressors. Doubtless many are Chetniks or their descendants. But Mi-hailovich's army is best described as a patriotic Balkan force, with a majority of Serbs, built around a large nucleus of trained Yugoslavian troops...