Word: croatian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia, Father George was a Croatian organizer of Catholic youth groups. He promptly took off his clerical garb, went underground, and with many other young Christians, eventually joined Slovak partisans. Fighting side by side with Russians, they kept their religion under cover-celebrating Mass, and even holding retreats, in forests with lookouts posted...
...Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Malay, Korean, Thai, Turkish, Hindustani, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian...
...also heard an important unofficial suggestion this week: to restore the freedom and independence of Yugoslavia, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania. It came from members of the International Peasant Union, including former Hungarian Premier Ferenc Nagy, Bulgarian Opposition Leader Georgi M. Dimitroff, Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek...
Hillbilly Government. But surprises are unlikely. The Proconsul has summarily silenced dissenters. Sporadic stabs of opposition still come from Yugoslavia's new Partisans (mostly followers of exiled Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek), who have taken to the hills. But the mass of anti-Communist Yugoslavs are leaderless. The middle class is being systematically liquidated, since ration cards are issued only to workers (says the model Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic...
...when he sits at his desk, his legs do not reach the floor), who used to be a journalist, modernist painter and a Belgrade drawing-room lion until Communists were taken seriously. Then he was jailed, spent years studying Chinese, lecturing his jailmates, and translating Das Kapital into Serbo-Croatian...