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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1954.

THE FASCISTS' PLOT AGAINST MY COUNTRY

N October 9, 1984, a of which was morial; death had cloudy sky cleared been almost instantaneous. The as RYNS Dubrovnik tragic news was released to the

world. walled into Mar- seilles Harbour with its French cruisers escort of Colbert and Duquesne.

Monster Barthou had lost a great deal of Auth from his wound, at first believed slight, and died within an hour of my father.

Chenerul

Georges recovered which at first

general instruction was given in terrorist methods, the handling of explosives, etc. One of the carllest onmps in Bovenje, later spilt and moved to San Dimitrio and to Fintekio Hear Arezzo, housed about 340 Untasi.

The men in these camps wore special uniforms designed per- onally by Pavelic, and they were modern arms.

fully

equipped with Instructors were ex-officers of the Austro-Hungarian Army On that fateful afternoon my experienced in the use of arms mother Was #lready

her and the handling of men. 021

At Journey to join my father in

Arezzo were two men working on explosive

which boxes sent un to Yugoslavin and used for blowing up trains, ele.

Perches

Pavelic's

Pusta

Before the landing Mon- from his wounds sieur Pletri, the Minister of had been believed more serious the French Admiralty, went than those of the Foreign on board and was the first Secretary. to welcome my father onl his visit to France,

As my father stepped on France. shore at the Qual des

Belges, he

Monsieur

was greeted by

Louis Barthou,

tho French Minister of

The Prefect

Foreign Affairs, and by the news to her. various

of Doubs broke

werd

EX-KING PETER OF YUGOSLAVIA CONTINUES

HIS LIFE STORY

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tho

the proverbial rats in the sink- Pavelte to provoke unrest among in Italy, Anfuzo, Minister of Ing ship, caine over to us and the Croals and difficultios be- Foreign Affairs, felt that gave us many secrets ot the tween Zagreb and Belgrade, moment for revolution in organisation.

Pavelic, who had been keep- Croalla had come, Although the Italing Fascists ing up as good a front as ba had never considered getting rid could, working ceaselessly

He gave Pavelle full power to of Pavelle and his chief

men, create disorder between Italy take action, and 231 Ustas! from they wished to send from their b Yugoslavia, went back the camps in Lipari and

10 thores the compromising

were taken on to Pira mings Luca, near Pisa, and began his dinia of Croats who had made up the conspiracy

again with minor orders of the organisation, formice helpers.

For ourselves, it seemed wiser to take back these Cronts into Yugoslavia as there was always

the

Hkelthood

Sar-

his where they were fitted up with uniforms and advanced to the border at Rijeke, where they

were,

Berlin also gave Pavelle full authority to ots March Zu Propaganda was intensified and

net

were

to

where the King's car would be After two days hunger forced closest to the pavement.

him from the woods and he was On the morning of the 9th, arrested in Melun. He was

Kralj Kerin and

went to condemned to 20 years' forced Godinn's hotel and Stand hand- labour. ed them ench two bombs and

In the course of the luvestiga- two guna,

IN Mauser and a

tions that followed, the Waither.

part Kvaternik the Godina that Fasent Italy had played in

And

my father'a asanasination had ter ben left for Turin.

handled in Kerin and Kral) went to their be very delicately hotel, had a light lunch.

order and drank down a litre of cognac to give them courage. They posseť unnoticed

through the

huge

Pavelle crowd in Marseilles and took

would use them again for acts their places as instructed.

against our country. We there- When Germany attempted to many Ustası were given Yugo- Thus Hungary's responsibility fore agreed with the With

Kerin on the

ond Italians draw Yugoslavia into the Three slav army uniforms of the

for the crime figured mure than to repatriate and offer work to Tower Paet, Pavelle was much parchuted into Yugoslavin Pavement and Karl) a little be- hind

him in

publielty

all Croats who wished it. the crush they Italy's a subsequent

and In January 1941 upset milltary manoeuvres. stood awaiting the arrival of the in spite of the fact

with meetings

radio, Pavelic Unfortunately the Ustasi had he had

By military 1000 main agents, set up the Junky procession. It is probable that worked with Hallan money and Zagreb police,

whole Untasi organisation was strong ally in the chief of the Comi to discuss our relations appealed to the Croats to rebel.

On our Tuly was preparing for war, and he kept in with Berin and Ronic. Instructions And

Was largely touch with the more dangerous

sile we dismissed the chief af doing her best to speed up the

of

German motivated by the talinn ambl of the repatriated men, helping the Zagreb police and did our Yugoslavia.

the destroy

State of them all he could.

ሃኒ through

Bismarck, Yugoslavia while still protesting to friendship for us In order to of the Lierman Minister in Roine, After

signature World opinion Was

much Serb-Croat agreement in August, arop their connection with the

Berlin persuade Italy to gain a fixie ume. gun, which were found later. affected by my father's death. 1939,

In the end the inevitable con- all repatriation stopped. Fallans Walther The

seeing this and The news went around among

completely com sequence of the Italian-Ustasi realising that the

0 promised Ustasi had the Croats in Italy pistol with him, as far as Fon jess Influence than they thought, Mlacek was against their return ssssination.

Morscilles conspiracy the

against Us Was That Dr P Tinebleau.

realised and war broke out. proached by the police and withdrew their mapport as much hon

home

Ax that the only way

late as March,

1941. asked to show his papers. He as possible.

NEXT SATURDAY: that

could they

Kick Pavelic received ful "top-sweret" Ret handed them his forged Czech

They

disarmed the Ustasi, wa bay revolution under reporta containing alt details of Return passport, but losing his nerve, took Away the uniforms and Pavelic The Italians, unhappy or milliary and air forces. ran off into the woods leaving confined them to Lipari, Cer- aimut the Serb-Croat agreement, When the revolution in Bel- Royal funeral... Football

ote

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terrorist

cing on

1

was used

had Instructions to kili Kerin if he could not crape. After Kerin had carried I was he e ha large photo the crime Kruij slipped away out graph of my father

returning to the hotel in Aix Lov toritet practice

where he left his bombs and a

Hon to

Hungarian farm. Speaking of other French lig- her great grief my mother said nitaries, white

military to him, "I have one small com- bands

silect King the Marsation, the

Franer, the

country he loved

The old voldiers of the French Army of the Eust were there, evger to greet my father, who in the part

often welcomed them in Belgrade.

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played seillaise and the Yugoslav best of all after his own." National Anthem.

On October 10 my mother was taken to where he lay its candle-Iff room, his hands folded on his sword, his lady covered to the waist by his country's flex, and inasses of flowers at his feet.

fother lay b state for some hours

Monsieur with Barthou uit! he was carried back on board the Dubrowark to set out on his return journey for Spfit. Yugoslavíu.

It was this same recognition of the Arm the between France and Yugavia's Bighting past that had brought the King first to Marselics Father than in the capital.

My father's murder was a great tragedy both for his own coundes if the world. Har he lived

the course of the Second World War would that have been the same.

Yugoslavia would never have allowed Italy to enter Albania tapposed on Good Friday, 1939;

Grevee would not have been left

He wished to make Kreture to Marseilles. that brated proved such a kindly haven toe wound- ed and refugee Serbs during the 1814-18 war, by paying homage, as the rat < net of his visit to France, to the memorial m Marseilles to Frenchmen who had lost thri lives in The the Yugoslav Army in 1941 have Bulkana

been in a pitiable state, so easily overcome by the German aggres-

one to defend herself against the Balians in 1940, nor would

The procession was lexi by a polke

car, followed by other slety. official vehicles, the trumpeters,

He suatuned up Yugoslvia's

a platem of guards on horseback, procarious position 48 follows. then the royal car, a black coupe with the root let down over the back seats only and with wide running-boords.

The car interiod for the King had been changed for one enabling the people to get a bet- ter view, while the police guard un motor-cycles were withdrawn with the same airn.

My father was sitting with Monsieur Barthou on his left and General Georges,

a member of the War Cabinet, opposite,

Inte behind the royal car two officers rode on horseback

and other cars followed. The

procession advanced ut Ittle more than walking pace,

The crowds cheered loudly and my father was stuffing and talk- ing gally with his companions.

The picture startling sudlderness.

changed

with

"Yugoslavia's immediate danger is Italy; after her will come

Germany; but the last, greatest of all, will be Russla,"

and

He was everstimlly a man of price. The unity, the welfare,

the internal content Yugoslavia os at whole was his dearest

concern. No greater or truer patriot ever lived, and

knew better than he the weaknesses and potential strength ut the peoples who made up his realm.

shortly

man

before las death, he sud: "What I require is 40 years of peace in which to build up a tradition of bunest administration.”

Discussinet his alma

result

the

A man rog drunkenly out from he was allowed so little time to It is our euntry's tragedy that the crowd, and Crying, "Vive lo

vision-which is my leapt on

to the wide realise his

Vision alser, running-board of the royal car, where he clung to the side, and Following the murder there

red first on ny futher

then was much talk among the French Monsieur Bartiku, and General authorities concerned about the Georges

madequate military and police The chauffeur,

Folssac, protection

procession. whirled around to push him However, no Frenchman was re- uway, while Lt.-Colel Poilet sponsible for what was, in fact, turned his scared

the

series of uf I mount and

and unfor- stuck the murderer with his misunderstandings sword until at fast he fell wildly tunate coincidences.

The

who willed and firing his automatic pistol on the

brought about my father's death One of history's most remark, had their origins in parts of the able photographs had caught this world separated from France scene, partly obscured by the both by distanes and by sent- smoke from the murderer's ment.

For them the murder weapon.

was meant as a decisive step towards the complete destruction of Yugoslavia, involving the nu- tonomy of the Creat State and the fulfilment of Italian design on Yugoslav territory.

crowd.

ones

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In Trieste, Antun Godina, maiders wanted by the palive, organised sabotage inside Yuge- slavia,

alled the foku documents and money required by the Ustasi.

The first attempt to assassin. ate my father was planned for December 1933, when he was

officiat paying

Visit Cruntia's

empital Zagreb, istast agent, Petar Dreb, Wis from Italy and met by Two

other collaborators Zagreb. Their plant Was throw a teh at my father's car as it crossed the city square, bu! Oreb

walking through the thick crowds, could not reach

the car in time,

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Antun Giling and Stana, H wife and devoted collaborator, who later Agured importantly father's assassination, Iny were confirmed gangsters and at one time lived in an under- world element In Chleago.

Stana herself, known as "the blonde tacy," was an American

Croat

The head of the Junku Pusta camp, Perchee,

Wis beavily criticised by a dval within the movement for the way ha lavished

money from Italian sources

on his mistress, Jelka, rather than'

approved activities. He was later tried by the movement and executed for treason some little after the Assassination.

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His mistress fed la Yugoslavia for protection and published a book there, exposing all she knew

about

this pernicious movement.

Men who provedl suspect

its in

in

or

after

unsatisfactory were condemned by Pavele One of the terror-

Italy, Babic, torturing and killing such men bodies off to the mountains and in his garage, carried their buried them there. No Belion was taken against these crimes by the Italians, who officially

insidered

the victims B3 out

spies,

مم

the

My father's death was seen by both Mussolini and Pavelle the first slep

towards destruction of Yugoslavia.

After the first, lil-organised attempt to assassinate my father had misfired, Pavelle chou a firın and experienced terrorist Ivan Mihajlov, who was the head Revolutionary Organisation, to fabricate a completely water- proof plan,

In September, 1934, my father's intended visit to Franco in October was widely Chaos followed the assault

broad- Horse guards and police came

The organisation working with cast by the Press. Pavelic had from all sides. Ten peoplo in these aims was made up mostly meetings in Rome with Mahaj-

fell to the ground working under a Croat,

"Ustasi" lov. of Croats, known as

Dr Ercell Conti, General the crowd

Anto Inspector bullets

of Italian Public sinin by the assassin's and the crowds milled around avelle, with Italian protection, Security, attended some of the

meetings

this ghostly seene down side streets.

or dispersed instructions, and financial sup-formed of the plans drawn up

The police dragged the

murderer along

and cast police

thome

was not

port.

at WOR

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timo a

and was completely

for the crime.

In the first days of October plan was put into motion.

The B Mijo Kralj and Velicko lov's bodyguard, were the men to whom the task of the actual murder was allotted

who was Mihoj~

the pavement him in the nearby station to protect him from the crowd's fury; he died There two hours later,

strong link between the "Ustast" a single and the old Hapsburg Monarchy, doctor in the procession

the as the latter also hoped to gain

They were joined in Lausanne victims

takan olse by the eventual breaking up of were all where. Monsieur Barthou, hold- Yugoslavia, planned by the by agents coming from Bologna, Ing his wounded left arm with movement.

among them Eugen Kvaternik, leading agent, and Pavelic, his right hand, staggered to a

who had dictatorial Favelie's

Antun and Stand Godino, who taxi and was taken off to the aims, let himself be known

"Supreme Chief of the Ustasi" smuggled various weapons out Ilis headquarters

of Italy. la were General Georges was carried

On October 4 they went on to Bologna by theee men from the crowd,

with

an office supervised by two policemen, to forokon

Parle together and split into two contacts ไท the Palais de la Bourse nearby, Working closely with him wore groups, the reserve group going to Versailles to avold the, Paris

night or two on their way Provence,

where they spent a Marseilles.

The criminals who stayed on in Versafitte had planned to meet midnight on" Obbober 0 in

Hotel Dicu.

for

Milan.

where he eventually got medical two secretaries specialising, police, and the other to Aix-en-

in the terroristic activities

main

of

attention.

in the the movement, and the other My father remained royal car ond Was driven off in propaganda" matters, through the Marseilles

streets, The

berworket camps screened by French next Yugoslav were in officers standing

close together Austria., Hungary, and a head office in further Bartim

on

the

raming boards.

links Wern

He was taken on to the Pre established between Ustaal and

nt

Lecture, where he was to have Yuroslav colonies walies plot,

come after the planned visit to

the monument.

Medleni nid was called for and 'young military doctor come

the

Zelland, Balgium and

Thron Aprons there.

welfare

forward to attend the King. My posedly

to

front of the Opera House in the event of the failure of the

groups, failed, an case both of helping agent, Artukovic was

went to London to await the King who MID had intended, to visit me

Bulgarians Karin and

the Americas,

humanitarian

societies leaving Trance,

father won inid on a green couch were, 'rocrulting - Ustas・and! The

in the Prefectorial Office; he was sanding them to camps in Italy Kral and Antun and Btana

very pale and

都好

GAVE

Go skn of and Hungary, Offices in Buenor Godina

Alros served on headquarters,

were among the party

....... bound`for-Marsellies, " It was

There was nothing to be done. In the terrorist COLETA in Godina who selected the 'exact

My dather had four wounds, one Haly, Austria and Hungary spot on the procession route

He fled, taking his

There he was ap-

the policemen astounded.

that the

tain of the leading Ustasi, Ike began

the

Pngered.

many

have

group

by

Von

oner more to encourage grade of March 27 was known

ninnnext

to

attack on

Yugoslavia

and dancing

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