Word: yugoslavic
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...General Papagos. In private life a patrician to his long fingertips, a foppish lover of fine horses and a patron of racing, his lifelong study has been a huge collection of military books. John Metaxas' name went upon the defense system thrown up along the Bulgarian and Yugoslav borders, which were later extended hastily down the Al banian. But in General Papagos' head rests knowledge of every gully and goat track not only in the Greek mountains but far beyond. Like his soldiers, whom amazed correspondents found toiling with out lanterns at midnight to repair bridges...
Until the spring of 1934, Boris was just another playful Balkan monarch. He liked most of all the boyish pastime of playing with railroad trains - real ones. His royal hobby became so famous that Yugoslav engineers named him Locomotive Führer Honoris Causa. Then in 1934 the Bulgarian Army abolished Parliament and established Boris as the somewhat bewildered figurehead of a military dictatorship. Boris buckled down to serious work and within a year made it just plain dictatorship, with the Army very much in the background. He had married Princess Giovanna, daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele...
...whom the Adriatic lands would fall in the New Order in Europe. It was also possible that the German program might involve a march through Yugoslavia into northern Greece-the sort of march about which Yugoslavia would not be consulted. There was no way of reconciling these things with Yugoslav membership in the Axis...
Corizza is the crossroads through which Italy, unless she violates Yugoslav neutrality and goes around by the Monastir Gap (Bitolj), must pass to strike at Salonika. It is also a gateway to loannina (Yanina) and the long rough road to Athens. Pounding and pushing the Italians out of Corizza was a feat of which the strategic importance overshadowed even the valor of the men who did it. The town stands at an elevation of 2,500 ft. on the western scarp of the Morava heights. Its defense against assault from the west and north, whence Italy must try to come...
...embarrassment to both these old soldiers to consider that if the Italians could not knock over the Greeks by themselves, the Germans might have to come in through Yugoslavia. This week Italians sent wave after wave of planes to strafe Greek positions everywhere, and concentrated tanks near the Yugoslav extremity of the border...