***** In 1942, the Treasury Star Parade broadcast lunch boxes a 15 minute radio play written by Viol

***** In 1942, the Treasury Star Parade broadcast lunch boxes a 15 minute radio play written by Violet Atkins and starring Orson Welles and Vincent Price which recounted the activities of the Yugoslav guerrilla resistance movement led by General Draza Mihailovich. The Treasury Star Parade lunch boxes was a syndicated radio program lunch boxes sponsored by the U.S. Treasury Department and broadcast by 833 radio stations across the U.S. The goal of the program lunch boxes was to promote the sale of war bonds and stamps. The radio play is a taut, melodramatic, and emotionally-charged dramatization of the events in German-occupied Yugoslavia. Atkins based the incidents in the play on news accounts which had appeared in 1942 in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, and other media outlets. The play reflects the popular perception of Draza Mihailovich and the Chetnik guerrillas in theU.S. in 1942. The Chetniks lunch boxes are shown as a resistance group based in the mountains of Yugoslavia. They take the Chetnik oath which means that they are pledged lunch boxes to give up their lives in the resistance struggle. They must sacrifice their homes and families. Dushan, the main character in the play, is a Chetnik resistance leader. Atkins adds the personal story of Dushan and Jovana who met at the fair and pledged to each other to marry when they became adults. They had grown up in Yugoslavia, a country formed out of World War I. This was the only country they had known and were committed to preserve it at any cost. Dushan and Jovana marry and move to Belgrade where Dushan opens a store. On Palm Sunday, April 6, 1941, German forces bomb Belgrade, an open city. Dushan and Jovana are in church when it is bombed and Jovana is killed. Dushan joins the Chetnik guerrilla resistance movement under Draza Mihailovich. Mihailovich is successful in his guerrilla war against German occupation troops. The German authorities offer a reward of ten million dinars for the arrest of Mihailovich. The Chetnik guerrillas remain defiant and continue the struggle against the Axis occupation troops. Dushan exclaims: “If a people desire freedom, weapons will grow in their hands!” “The Chetniks” is a well-written wartime drama that is overwrought and emotionally overcharged. The high intensity and emotional appeal are effective. The radio play is a drama and as a dramatic work it succeeds well. This is not meant to present facts but to appeal lunch boxes to emotions. The play relies lunch boxes on the popular perceptions of the Chetniks in 1942 as presented in the U.S. and Allied media. Violet Atkins had written scripts for not only the Treasury Star Parade but for other radio programs such as the Camel Caravan, lunch boxes the Camel Hour in the 1940s and for television in the 1950s, writing scripts lunch boxes for You Are There, Waterfront, and Code 3. Atkins also wrote “V for Victory”, “The Murder of Lidice”, “The Bell of Tarchova”, “Education for Victory”, and “All God’s Children” for the Treasury Star Parade radio series. As a wartime drama, the play succeeds, in the way that Casablanca, lunch boxes Mrs. Miniver, Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas, and Undercover (Underground Guerrillas) succeed. The play works in the context lunch boxes of its times, a wartime drama meant to reinforce opposition and resistance to the Axis powers. Historians may debate its accuracy or objectivity, but as a dramatic work, it is successful and effective.
“The lunch boxes Chetniks” (1942) by Violet Atkins Announcer: The Treasury Star Parade, produced under the personal direction of William A. Bacher with Vincent Price as our master of ceremonies, lunch boxes David Broekman and the Treasury orchestra and chorus and starring Mr. Orson Welles in Violet Atkins’ story of unconquered Yugoslavia, The Chetniks. (Chetnik lunch boxes song: “Chetniks the bugles are blowing from peaks of cold, dark mountains.”) Narrator (Vincent Price): The Chetniks. In their gloomy forest back in the hills of Yugoslavia a group of men stand in a half circle around their leader. On the edge of the circle lunch boxes the lookout stands, alert, lunch boxes his gun poised. lunch boxes In the dim half light beneath the great trees, these fierce men take a vow that will consecrate them forever to one service. Listen to their grim oath as their leader Dushan speaks. Dushan (Orson Welles): You will repeat after me: “For lunch boxes the glory of Yugoslavia (repeat) and for the greater freedom of the world (repeat). Take your step forward. Speak your names. Narrator: See their faces lifted to Dushan. All different but all molded and merged into the same hard fierce distinction of their new destiny lunch boxes to free Yugoslavia. That boy with the newly healed scar down his cheek. (I, Ivan Mirkovich) The middle aged man with the sensitive scholar’s face. (I, Martin Vodjornik) The young woman with the grave, tragic eyes. (I, Sonja Godnik) That thin face of the born soldier rigid with purpose. (I, Boris Stampac) The square-jawed peasant with the grizzled hair. (I, Sava Sokolovich) Dushan: Swear t