Word: zagreb
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...Serbian Chetniks (revolutionaries) and other guerrillas raided Nazi-occupied Yugoslav villages. Four time bombs exploded in Zagreb's central telephone exchange, injuring six Germans and crippling Zagreb's telephone system...
...Zagreb there was proclaimed the restoration of the Crown of Zvonimir, which rested on the heads of Croatian Kings and now returns to represent the sovereignty of the Independent State of Croatia...
...arrived in Budapest was CBS Radio Correspondent Cecil Brown-thrice arrested on suspicion of spying-who told of the "odor of death which hangs over the half-destroyed capital" as he watched German soldiers dig out a few of the 7,000 dead, the 10,000 wounded. Stranded in Zagreb was A.P. Correspondent Max Harrelson, his passport seized by the new puppet Croat Government...
Croatia. No sooner had the Hitler juggernaut rumbled across the northern Croatian plains of Yugoslavia than the formation of an "independent" Croatia was announced, its capital at Zagreb, second to Belgrade among Yugoslav cities. The announcer was a Quisling worthy of the name. He was dark, treacherous Ante Pavelitch, leader of the terroristic Ustashi, a band of rapacious Croat schemers who for years have hated the Serbs, Jews and Croatia's own peasants and plotted with Italian, Hungarian and German money to split Yugoslavia and bring the Ustashi to power...
Strategy. The headlines pounded with the rich, twisty Balkan names: Zagreb, Cattaro, Salonika, Ljubljana. But the President and his counselors had to watch the whole enormous scene in a world where the U.S. was a fulcrum, balancing Britain in the Western scale with Chungking in the East...