1-19: 1941/42 Definitive Set: Landscapes
20-22: Red Cross Fund: National Costumes (1941)
23: Anti-Bolshevik (1) Exhibition in Zagreb (1941)
24-27: Airplane Models Exhibition (1942)
28-30: First Anniversary of Independence (1942)
Miniature Sheet no.1 and 2: Airplane Models Exhibition (1942):
(1) The
Anti-Comintern Pact was concluded between Nazi Germany and Japan in November
1936. The pact was directed against the Communist International (Comintern)
in general, and the Soviet Union in particular. In case of an attack by the
Soviet Union, the two countries agreed to consult on what measures to take "to
safeguard their common interests". They also agreed that neither of them
would make any political treaties with the Soviet Union, and Germany also agreed
to recognize the Japanese puppet regime in Manchuria. In 1937 Italy joined the
Pact.
Adolf Hitler broke the terms of the pact when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop
Pact in August 1939. He did this because he was attempting to avoid a war on
two fronts. The Anti-Comintern Pact was revived in 1941, after Germany's assault
on the Soviet Union. This time the parties were: Germany, Japan, Italy, Hungary,
Spain, Manchukuo, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Romania, Slovakia, and
the Nanking regime in China.