Word: yugoslavic
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...Germans are still fighting an inconclusive campaign with hard-bitten Chetniks in the Serbian mountains. The Italians last week replaced a general in their Army of Occupation who had failed to conquer the Yugoslav guerrillas. A strict curfew suddenly clamped on Belgrade indicated that the Serbian patriots were operating even in the capital...
Yugoslavia's hopes of successful resistance were bolstered by rumors that the British had 300,000 troops in Greece ready to reinforce the Yugoslav Army. St. John heard these reports from a Greek journalist called Pappas. When he checked with the British Embassy they smiled and said that they could make no official statement, but that Pappas was a very reliable...
...John and other newsmen worked desperately to follow the Yugoslav Government, first to Vranyska Banya, then to Sarajevo. Above every thing else they wanted a chance to send their reports to Britain and the U.S. But all phone lines were shut and the only radio station operating, as far as the correspondents could learn, was a tiny portable transmitter which belonged to a British diplomat. This was in use 24 hours a day pounding out messages asking for reinforcements from Greece, but finally the correspondents persuaded the operator to send a single 100-word dispatch signed with all their names...
After World War I he spent years in Yugoslav staff activity, became an expert on Nazi fifth-column activity. Early in 1940 he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for "disloyalty" in filing documents on the fifth column with Regent Prince Paul and the Serb quisling-to-be, General Milutin Nedich. Friends near the high command had Mihailovich freed...
...London last week the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile did General Mihailovich proper honors; they made him Minister of War. At the same time General Dusan Simovich, who led last winter's revolt against the pro-Axis compromises of Regent Prince Paul, was succeeded as Premier by dwarfish, dynamic Slobodan Jovanovich, 72, a liberal, gifted historian and jurist who may be expected to harmonize all anti-Axis Yugoslav elements, Serb, Croat and Slovene...