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...Balkans only Yugoslavia's Regent Prince Paul still held out. Italy wanted him to replace Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch with Dr. Ante Pavelitch, a fugitive in Italy for plotting the assassination of King Alexander I. Germany wanted Dr. Milan Stoyadinovitch, who was recently released from jail after being caught in a fifth-column roundup (TIME, April 29). Whichever way Prince Paul moved, his country was doubtless in for some territorial revisions...
Hungary began censoring outgoing postal, telephone and telegraph traffic. Yugoslavia, having sent 120,000 reservists ._ ne, recalled them. Prime Minister Cvetkovitch formed a National Cabinet. Chinese reported a Japanese plan to take Shanghai. Russia enigmatically exchanged Ambassadors with Italy while rushing heavy motorized forces into Lithuania. Immediately after II Duce's speech, Turkey's President Ismet Inonii, Premier Dr. Refik Saydam and Foreign Minister Sukrii Saracoglu consulted with the Allied Ambassadors. All Turkish military leaves were canceled. Turkey, bound by mutual assistance pacts to the Allies in case of any aggression in the Mediterranean area, announced she would...
First day of the conference the Ministers met for three and a half hours; called on Yugoslav Prime Minister Dragisha Cvetkovitch; lunched with Prince Paul, Senior Regent, and Princess Olga at their white castle overlooking the Danube; left calling cards at the homes of Co-Regents Dr. Ivo Perovitch and Dr. Radenko Stankovitch and of Dr. Vladimir Matchek, the Croat leader. Second day they talked again, dined at the Officer's Club, made pleasant, diplomatic speeches. Third day they conferred again, went back home...
Instead, Carol and Mihai showed up near Vrsac, a Yugoslav town close to the Rumanian border, which is noted for its good wines and hunting. There, they were met by the polished, cultured, Oxford-educated, pro-Ally Prince Paul, Senior Regent of Yugoslavia, and the Yugoslav Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch. Of all Rumania's Balkan neighbors, Yugoslavia is its only real friend (Rumania annexed territory from the others after World War I). Rumania and Yugoslavia, once members of the French-inspired Little Entente, are now members of the Balkan Entente, which is scheduled to meet at Belgrade next month. Dictator...
Prime Minister: Dragisha Cvetkovitch...