Word: yugoslavic
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...state of jitters last week. By displaying her Army across the Danube, by spreading rumors and feeding correspondents scare stories, the Germans have already learned that there is no fight in Bulgaria. Last week they turned the heat on Yugoslavia. Rumors spread that Germany had demanded the use of Yugoslav railways for the transport of equipment to Albania, that large German forces were being concentrated on Yugoslavia's borders. Purposes of this little war of nerves were to test the resistance of Yugoslavia, to create distrust of Belgrade in Athens and Ankara...
...fleet had kept chopping at Italian supply lines all week. A submarine (British or Greek) sank three Italian merchantmen in the Adriatic. Next day another Italian ship was torpedoed off the Yugoslav coast. An armed merchantman was sunk after a running fight in the same waters. The submarine Thetis which foundered off Liverpool in 1939, now raised and renamed the Thunderbolt, torpedoed an Italian submarine cruising on the surface...
...Timisoara, just 20 miles from the Yugoslav frontier, a mechanized division took up quarters. Mechanized units set tled down for the winter at Turnu-Māgurele near the Bulgarian border, his toric jumping-off-place of the barbaric hordes who in past ages surged through the Rhodope Mountain passes into the fertile plains of Grecian Thrace. Across the Danube and two-and-one-half miles of marshland that separate Rumanian Giurgiu from Bulgarian Russe, Nazi engineers began to construct a gigantic ferry and pontoon bridge capable of supporting the heaviest equipment...
Strategists read into Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham's dramatic appearance with his fleet in the Adriatic last week a gesture of warning and defiance to the Germans: let them not dare to try smuggling troopships down behind the islands along the Yugoslav coast. The R. A. F. bombed an oil refinery near Venice, aimed at a bridge near Fiume, and repeatedly smashed at Mannheim, a rail junction through which German munitions bound for Italy would pass...
...Yugoslav, a Greek, a Hungarian, an Englishwoman, two Swedes, several Americans - and one Italian - sang an Italian opera in Manhattan one night last week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang...