afraid that Dorian won't find his relationship with Basil intesting and exciting anymore. Basil fell in love with Dorian while painting his picture. Basil also treated him good, kept his self- esteem and spirit up by saying all the great things about him, of how good he looks and how much he as an artist likes him, etc. Everything that Dorian did later in his life selling his soul to the Devil in order to remain picturesquely and breath-takingly beautiful (Dorian wanted the picture to get older in time, not he himself.) was in my opinion actually a favour from Basil Hallward, because he was the one who told all those nice things to him. Basil even got jealous because of that he himself had created a Dorian Gray as such, who can actually live his life leaning on his devine beauty and knowing all about it. At first, Basil got jealous of lord Henry Wotton and after Dorian
the military ciphers of Yugoslavia, with whom Italy's relations had been strained over Fiume and Trieste practically since Yugoslavia was created after World War I. The Germans used the solutions for a blitzkrieg from the north. The Italians exploited them in a crafty deception that helped avoid a possible debacle in the south. Almost up to the moment of the Axis invasion, the Italian armies that had occupied Albania had exposed what Churchill picturesquely called their "naked rear" to Yugoslavia in the north. Yugoslavia had no chance against the Wehrmacht, but both Axis and Allies realized that if she struck forcefully against the rather disorganized Italians, she could win a major victory, embarrass Mussolini, delay the Axis conquest, and acquire the munitions and supplies for a large-scale guerrilla harassment of the Nazi occupiers. Thus, when two Yugoslav divisions drove southward on