Word: yugoslavic
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...eminent composer and music scholar, Bela Bartok (Piano Concertos, Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments, MikroKosmos). The cell is a phonograph-listening room at Columbia University. He is listening to some 2,500 double-sided aluminum phonograph discs on which is impressed the largest recorded collection of Yugoslav folk songs ever made...
...next fall Composer Bartok will have ready for publication a fat, scholarly book containing 75 of the best Yugoslav love songs. Whatever happens to heroic Draja Mihailovich and his warriors, the voice of Yugoslavia will be preserved...
Biggest island of freedom in Europe is the wild mountainous triangle of old Serbia dominated by General Draja Mihailovich. The Yugoslavs fight in a bumptiously Balkan way: in separate groups divided by ancient hates. Thus, within Mihailovich's domain operates a separate force directed by the Yugoslav Communist Party...
...however, because such stories provided a convenient excuse to Italy's Nazi masters for not sending more Italian divisions to the Russian front. And quite a few of those difficulties could be traced to Italian ways: some of Il Duce's quartermasters were selling arms to their Yugoslav foes...
...United Press dispatch from Turkey reported that 300 Hungarian officers had been arrested last week for aiding Yugoslav, Polish and Russian guerrillas.) Mostly, however, the Yugoslavs fight with the same inferior weapons they had when the struggle started 16 months ago. But they fight an unflaggingly bitter war, as witness this tribute from the Italian press: "Italian troops are faced with terrible suffering in this fight against an irreconcilable foe, against a hostile population, in a country where death lurks behind every rock...