Word: yugoslavic
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...seemed to know exactly what the celebrations were about. Yugoslavia certainly had no reason to be explosively cheerful: Nazi pressure was putting its last exquisitely painful touches on the Yugoslav body politic...
Refugee colonists-Czechs, Poles, Belgians, Dutch, Rumanians, Jews, "De Gaullists"-were already clearing out as fast as they could get visas. Yugoslav oppositionists handed Prince Paul a memorandum complaining that the people were being told nothing. Presently police raided the headquarters of the oppositionist Democratic Party, seized its manifestoes and its leader, Milan Grol. It all had the familiar odor of the Hitler approach. At week's end it was reported that Yugoslavia had arranged a "compromise" with Adolf-Yugoslavia would be "nonaggressive" and would allow the Nazis to move down the Vardar Valley toward Greece. Next...
...month ago Yugoslav Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch had conversations with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. Last week it was repeatedly reported and denied (by interested parties) that Prince Paul himself had spent part of the week in the same place. Britain also was making representations to Yugoslavia, but the British Ministry was suddenly alarmed to learn that although Bulgaria had signed the Axis pact only the week before, Boris of Bulgaria had actually agreed to the Axis demands last November. Britain promptly told her subjects to leave Yugoslavia...
...Over the Yugoslav railroads sealed freight trains carrying German war machinery kept rumbling toward the Bulgarian border. The German forces in Rumania were said to total 600,000, and across the early swollen Danube between Rumania and Bulgaria Nazi engineers had already thrown a network of pontoon bridges...
...wise to join the Axis. The two men said: We shall tell Regent Prince Paul what you say. Herr Hitler said: I should like Yugoslavia's assurance that she will do nothing if Germany invades Bulgaria and attacks Greece; I might like permission to send troops across Yugoslav soil to Greece; when I have won the war, I might give Yugoslavia Salonika and Northern Albania. The two said: We shall tell Prince Paul. Then they went home and told Prince Paul...