Word: yugoslavic
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Nazi prospects in Yugoslavia are better, and they are improved the farther north the Germans look. To outflank Yugoslavia, as Greece and Crete are already outflanked, the Allies must take most of German-held Italy. Last week the Germans said that strong troop concentrations had moved on to the Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate...
...Cvetkovich had visited Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1941, then had allied Yugoslavia with the Axis. A popular revolt had repudiated him. After his country's defeat, he had lived privately and well at a Czech spa. Now, perhaps, he would serve as the most likely Yugoslav quisling...
...Hungarian peace feelers turned up in many neutral capitals, generally coupled with inquiries as to how much of the territory snitched from Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czecho-Slovakia she might look forward to retaining. One feeler was reported to have offered the Yugoslav Government in Exile the return of all former Yugoslav territory. It was ignored...
Thus the exponents of Yugoslav unity administered a defeat without winning a victory. But in the months of the growing crisis their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...
...last-minute move to achieve a compromise between the pro-Yugoslav and pan-Serb groups, Jovan Banjanin, former Minister of Forests and Mines, was chosen to form a new Government. The issue remained unsolved...