Background
Petrović was born in 1925 in Zagreb and graduated from Belgrade"s Grande école (Velika škola) in 1944, when he joined the national resistance movement, General Dragoljub Mihailović"s loyal Chetniks, while under Axis occupation.
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Nenad Petrovic
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He studied Political Economy in London.
Career
After withdrawing through Sandzak and Bosnia in 1944 and 1945, he became an interpreter for the Yugoslav units serving the British Army in Italy and Germany. In 1947, he came to Great Britain as a Displaced Person and first worked as a farm hand and later as an employee in an industrial concern. From 1963, he was secretary of the exile Committee of the Liberal International.
He is also secretary of the Association of Serbian Writers and Artists in Exile.
Under the editorship of Professor Radoje Knežević he was, from 1964 to 1974, permanent correspondent of Glas kanadskih Srba (Voice of the Canadian Serbs).
Membership
Petrović was active in the association Oslobodjenje (Liberation) and was a member of the editorial board of the publication, Naša Reć (Our Word) from 1958 and of the editorial board of the publishing house Naše Delo (Our Deed). He was a member of Democratic Alternative, founded by Desimir Tošić.
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Serbian -
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Political Party
Communist Party