Madeleine Albright in Serbia, 1939

Albright - Serb - Cypriot magazine report Nicosia, Apr 17 (CNA) -- A Serbian family living in Vrinjetska Banja village, in Yugoslavia, is reported to have given shelter to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, when her family fled Nazi persecution during World War Two. A Cypriot weekly publication “To Periodico“ (The Magazine) carried the story yesterday, with phaded black-and-white photos including one of four- year-old Albright embracing Ljutko Popic, who told his story to the magazine. Popic claims he is the boy in the picture, taken in 1939, and the girl is the present US Secretary of State. He said he was Albright’s “first love“ and wondered why she is now backing NATO bombing in Yugoslavia. The Serb is reported to have said that Albright’s Jewish-Czech family took refuge with his family, in their village Vrinjetska Banja, some 80 kilometres out of Kraljevo, to escape the threat of Nazi persecution. His village was bombed on the night the Cypriot journalists stayed there, April 12, and the follow