Word: jugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brightest star of Victor's sky is the Met's Jugoslav-born soprano Zinka Mi-lanov. Her Pace, pace, mio Dio from La Forza del Destine and Voi lo sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
Greatest success of the "underground" forces striking constantly was centered in Jugoslavia where the guerrillas under Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch had won control of 11,000 square miles of former Jugoslav or Montenegrin territory...
...Fighting Jugoslav guerrilla bands have driven Italian occupation forces from most of the former Jugoslavian province of Bosnia and sabotage and anti-Axis activity continues to plague the Axis in other portions of occupied Europe, London reports said Tuesday...
Yugoslavia. The Nazis threatened last week that if brave General Mihailovich and his 150,000 guerrillas did not surrender within five days, 16,000 Jugoslav hostages, including many relatives of the guerrillas, would be executed. A response-came at once from the 20,000-square-mile "Island of Freedom," where General Mihailovich has for months fought off and made raids against as many as seven different Nazi divisions (TIME, March 9). The response: a "spring offensive" against the one remaining Nazi division and the Bulgarian troops which have replaced the others...
...Jugoslav quarters said that, insofar as could be learned, the fleet has suffered no serious losses in the five days of German blitzkrieg and was able to move southward to join the British behind the screen of the Dalmatia Islands...