Word: serbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they industriously built a railroad to the border that finally puts an end to the centuries-old traffic over the Drina Bridge. The book's last chapters take place in the first months of World War I, with Visegrad being shelled impartially by Austrian and Serbian guns. Suspected Serb sympathizers are hanged in Visegrad Square, and the last gesture of the retreating Austrians is to wreck the bridge over the Drina...
...Dutchman will leave a café when it fills up with tourists in Lederhosen and Tyrolean hats. In Yugoslavia the Germans are welcome, if only because they assist Yugoslavia's acutely short consumer-goods market by selling their belongings as they go along. Observed an elderly Serb in Belgrade: "Germans can cross the border with a normal amount of personal belongings, spend a month here and return without having used up much real cash at all. Of course," he added, "by this time, they're practically naked...
World. War II: When the Germans invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, Tito took to the hills. Stalin, still chummy with Adolf Hitler (the Nazi-Soviet pact stayed in force until June, when the Nazis invaded Russia), ordered the Yugoslav Communists to confine themselves to sabotage. During these first months, Serb Colonel Draja Mihailovich, loyal to the Mon archy, fought off the Nazis. Tito set up a rival guerrilla army, eventually had 150,000 men, enough to tie down 15 Axis divisions. He proved himself the most successful guerrilla commander of World War II. At first the Western Allies supported Mihailovich...
With all the strength, intelligence and zeal he possesses-and he is well supplied with all-Vladimir ("Vlado") Dedijer, a strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) Serb, has devoted most of his life to Yugoslavia's particular brand of Communism and to its rugged messiah, Marshal Tito...
...again. He discovered that the men lived in Gary, Ind., and thought they were still in Gary. The doctor announced that they were not seriously hurt, so the police decided to let them sleep in jail for a few hours, then stake them to carfare home. The English-speaking Serb shook off the guiding arm of a cop. "I go myself, gladly," he said. "Here is freedom and democratsia...