Word: yugoslavic
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...delegates will attend a welcoming reception on July 9 given at the Hotel Diplomat by 1,000 students of New York City. Guest speakers at the meeting will be Stoyan Gavrilovic, Yugoslav delegate to the UN, Edouard Lindeman of Columbia University, and Lisa Sergio, radio commentator...
Veteran newsmen wondered how anything could ever come out of the wild confusion. One delegate mistook a two-star admiral for a Yugoslav observer. Reporters themselves caught the fever. One thought he was buttonholing Walter Reuther, embarrassedly found he was talking to a Chicago Tribune staff writer...
Last week, in the stifling summer heat of a makeshift courtroom outside Belgrade, the onetime hero of Yugoslav resistance was very tired. Prison-pale and peering myopically through his thick-lensed glasses, he tried wearily to turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best...
...against Soviet Russia, Josip Broz, the Communist toolmaker who called himself "Tito," appeared on the scene. To Mihailovich, the exiled government's official military leader, Tito may have seemed no more than a rabble-rouser leading a pack of bandits. Mihailovich clearly felt it his duty to unify Yugoslav resistance under his leadership and to hold his forces in readiness for the day when the Allies struck at the Germans from outside the country. But Mihailovich failed to liquidate Tito, whose power waxed as the Serb's waned...
Tito, after his fashion, had been reciprocating. Last week a wave of political arrests in Yugoslavia rounded up people suspected of being too friendly with the Americans and British. Reports came from Belgrade that more reservists, in smart new Russian-type uniforms, were being called up. No Yugoslav dared be seen at a British or American information center...