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...Hitler. As he watches from his mountain walls, he stands for every European saboteur who awaits the moment to jam the machine, plant the bomb, or pry up the railroad rail. He has directly inspired others, like Rumanian Patriot Ion Minulescu, who harries the Axis from the Carpathians, and Albanian and Montenegrin guerrillas who worry at Italian flanks on the Adriatic coast...
When Hitler's Panzers began rolling into Yugoslavia last April, General (then Colonel) Mihailovich led his regiment into the mountain fastnesses near the Albanian border and let the enemy roll on to Greece. The collapse of the only partly mobilized Yugoslav Army meant that thousands of soldiers, fully and modernly equipped, rushed to Mihailovich. Soon Mihailovich began systematically harassing Nazi police units and the pro-Nazi Croatian Ustashi...
Fortnight ago the Axis learned a lesson in the possible dangers of Balkan partitioning. On a tour of the Albanian battlefields went Italy's and Albania's little 71-year-old King Vittorio Emanuele III. While he was motoring toward the Tirana airport with Albanian Premier Shefket Verlaci, a 19-year-old Greek named Vasil Laci Mihailoff fired four wild pistol shots at the King's car. On Mihailoff's person the police later found "futuristic poems" dealing with "love and hatred among farm animals." The Italians promptly dubbed Mihailoff a "poetic maniac" and further claimed...
...third day of fighting-with the Yugoslav collapse in the Vardar Valley. From the information so far available, it appears that from then on less than three full divisions of British-Anzacs troops and perhaps five divisions of Greeks (perhaps ten Greek divisions were facing the Italians on the Albanian front) bore the brunt of the best attack that could be mounted by 40 divisions of Germans. Under these conditions the Allies had virtually no reserves except a British tank division which backstopped the line wherever it weakened. The British and Anzacs held the anchor position on the right wing...
...been amputated after frostbite in Albania. No winter equipment had been provided for the Army. The boy raised the stump of his arm and screamed: "We're going to kill Mussolini, the murderer." Whitaker heard another story of a wounded man who rose from his cot in an Albanian hospital and spat in the face of Mussolini's daughter, Countess Ciano...