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Down through the rocky hills of Croatia and Bosnia last week swept a formidable Axis army. Its aim: destruction of the Partisan armies and liquidation of the free democratic state comprising roughly one-sixth of Yugoslavia-larger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. The Stukas started off well by destroying the towns of Drvar and Tsetingrad...
...Bosanska Krajina Partisans created a tiny state in the wedge-shaped area in Croatia bounded by the towns of Glamoch, Drvar, Petrovach, Kljuch and Donji Vakuf. They prepared systematically for major military operations. They trained their ever-growing armies, not for pinprick sabotage, but for a major campaign to drive the Axis from Yugoslavia...
...federation of equal States modeled after Switzerland. The impoverished peasants of Yugoslavia-Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Hungarians, Christians and Moslems-have shown an increasing preference for the Partisans. They have deserted Mihailovich, who works for a greater Serbia, the Fascist Ustachi, who want a greater Croatia, and the Serbian collaborationists under the quisling General Milan Neditch...
Civil War. The day General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army began pounding Marshal Erwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in El Alamein, the Partisans of Bosanska Krajina moved northward down the jagged valleys of the Dinarian Alps to the outskirts of the Zagreb basin in Croatia. From the Valebit Mountains in Dalmatia a second force, called the Partisans of Lika, moved to meet them. From the northeast came a third army of Croat irregulars...
...Ante Pavelich soon found out, this was not what some Croats wanted. He dared not go out in the streets without a shield of burly bodyguards. "Communist bands'' became the terror of his troops, and General Draja Mihailovich, whose forces are concentrated in western Croatia, had won thousands of new adherents. What happened last week in Zagreb taught more Croats a lesson: that Serb dominance was to Gestapo dominance as an itch is to a cancer...