Word: jugoslavia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peasant houses sported a half-dozen flags, both Italian and Yugoslav. The flags were made of silk from parachutes we had used to drop food and supplies to the Partisans when they were fighting the Germans. On every building there were red stars and signs reading: "Tukaj je Jugoslavia" (This is Yugoslavia) and "Zivjo Tito" (Long live Tito...
...Reconstruction wants "to make sure that no country will again use education for poisoning." The Liaison Committee for International Education is trying to stimulate U.S. public interest in postwar educational problems. On record favoring an I.E.O. are spokesmen of China and of the exiled Governments of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Greece...
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...
...warning that today the war is far from won, he asserted that Britain and America will have to take the war more seriously. "The strain on the Russian line is tremendous; the need for a second front is daily growing more acute. To date, the guerrilla armies of Jugoslavia are doing more to divert the military strength of the Axis than the United States and Britain...
...along the corridor which these cases form is the building's air raid shelter where all employees will go in the event of a bombing attack. Then, on a lower floor, there are the remains selected from the contents of 300 graves excavated in the famous cemetery of Magdalenaberg, Jugoslavia, by Her Highness, the Duchess Marie Antoinette of Mecklenberg, during the early twentieth century. The Peabody bought these objects, and the Duchess's descendants, regarding them as family heirlooms, have been regretting the sale ever since...