Word: yugoslavic
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...first it appeared that the British and Americans had finally made the grand invasion of the Balkans. Allied headquarters in Rome permitted correspondents to go all out, announce that a new organization known as the Land Forces of the Adriatic had landed in Albania and the Yugoslav islands...
...seasoned Democrats. To Belgium and Luxembourg went Charles Sawyer, 57, longtime Ohio politician; to Norway, by way of the exiled Government in London, Lithgow Osborne, who left the U.S. foreign service 22 years ago for the automobile business, and has aided Herbert Lehman in UNRRA; and to the Yugoslav Government, Richard C. Patterson, onetime assistant to the late Secretary of Commerce, Daniel C. Roper...
Chiang was urged to look to Communist Marshal Tito for a model. "The Army of Marshal Tito has 300,000 while Chiang's has 3,000,000. Nevertheless, the success of the Yugoslav Army is obvious, which cannot be said at the present time for the National Government of China. This is explained by the powerful unity of the Yugoslav peoples." China's unity, said War and the Working Class, "can be achieved only on the base of democracy...
...floor of the cellar smoking for half an hour. Then the soldier with the bandaged head appeared, all grins, and announced in pidgin language: "Engländer und Amerikaner good, aber Partisanen kaputt"-indicating that only the Yugoslavs would be executed. At about 9 a.m. we were marched off to a cemetery where the Germans had established their headquarters. The whole town was in German hands by now, but the firing was heavier at the foot of the hills around the town. We stood for a while, watching the bandaging of the first German wounded. Suddenly I saw a Chetnik...
...Adriatic, Allied and Partisan forces raided the Yugoslav island of Brac, wiping out a German garrison...