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...politicians sought a safe way from the German camp. Russian sources reported that the Partisans had seized a stretch of the Dalmatian coast below Fiume. Hungarian sources reported that Adolf Hitler, apparently dissatisfied with the puppet Serb Government of General Milan Nedich, had also summoned to Berchtesgaden ex-Premier Dragisha Cvetkovich. Swarthy, ambitious Dragisha Cvetkovich had visited Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop in 1941, then had allied Yugoslavia with the Axis. A popular revolt had repudiated him. After his country's defeat, he had lived privately and well at a Czech spa. Now, perhaps, he would serve...
...professional soldier and a former Belgrade lawyer are the leaders of the Yugoslav forces. The soldier is Colonel Drazha Mihailovitch, a lean, pince-nezed man of 47 who in World War I captured an enemy battery of heavy artillery with a single machine gun. Dragisha Vasitch, the lawyer, was an Army reserve officer, but was better known as a writer and the founder of the Serbian Cultural Club...
...Germans as much as possible, then retire in order behind Salonika to the main Anglo-Greek force. This plan was disrupted by Yugoslav weakness, which was due to troop dispositions which had been made for political rather than military reasons by the pre-coup, pro-German Government of Dragisha Cvetkovitch...
...Soldiers. At 1 o'clock in the morning of March 27, 1941, a little-known correspondent for the New York Times, Ray Brock, was sitting in a cafe in a suburb of Belgrade. Correspondent Brock had filed a story about the night's demonstrations against Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch's Government, which the police had broken up, and was having a drink before going home to bed. A Montenegrin he knew came up and whispered in his ear. Correspondent Brock dived for the door...
...made of the same tough stuff as was his late cousin, King Alexander, and unlike Alexander he has tried hard to placate the autonomy-minded Croats. Against the virtual certainty of losing Croatia and its neighbors if the German demands were resisted, Prince Paul advised their acceptance. His Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch, and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch agreed. So, naturally, did the Croatian Vice Premier, Vladimir Matchek, and Father Fran Kulovetch, the Slovene leader. The Minister of War, General Petar Pesitch, was doubtful...