Word: yugoslavic
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...learned gathering in London last week a Yugoslav made a scene, but no one was embarrassed for him. Dr. Milan Grol, Yugoslavia's Minister of Education, was speaking to 230 educators from 16 countries, convened to add a "Children's Charter" to the Atlantic Charter...
...startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready to join her husband, an attache of the Yugoslav Consulate in Manhattan. Said she in her uneasy English: "Everyone was good to me." Said gallant Dr. Conly: "A brave, lovely woman...
...only leader of open warfare against Adolf Hitler on the continent of Europe today is a gallant, stocky man who likes to play peasant songs on the mandolin. For months, in the Yugoslav mountains south of Belgrade, General Draja Mihailovich and his 100,000 super-guerrillas have fought off as many as seven German divisions (TIME, Dec. 15), inspired by a magnificent will to resist. But recently General Mihailovich radioed the exiled Yugoslav Government in London that his ammunition was running...
...Yugoslav Government did not last long after it reached Sarajevo, and St. John and his colleagues decided that their best chance of avoiding the invading armies was to head for the coast and find a boat to take them to Greece. Finally four of them set out down the Adriatic in a 20-ft. sardine boat with a one-lunged outboard motor and a sail...
...first night the outboard conked out and they nearly swamped trying to row in a gale and rainstorm. Next day they landed and persuaded a Yugoslav carpenter who had once worked in Philadelphia to come along and help them work the boat. For three days and two nights they sailed down the Adriatic, dodging Italian mines and mine layers. Since no one in the boat knew anything about navigation, they steered by the stars in the southern sky, and did not figure out until weeks later why they were headed nearly due west each morning...