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Nagy the Partisan. Those Chetniks who wanted to continue active resistance filtered through the lines and joined a Partisan band under the command of 32-year-old Kosta Nagy. Nagy was not an amateur. As commander of a Croat machine-gun battalion of Republican Spain's International Brigade, Nagy had made a name by holding a position on the Ebro for weeks in spite of persistent attacks by Fascist units far better equipped...
...liberated areas Partisan money is circulated, and so strong is the influence of the new State among the Croat peasants that in certain areas east of Ljubjlana Italian occupation authorities cannot buy food with lire, but have to use bons issued by the Partisans. The liberated area has a radio station, audible in Switzerland, whose English-language newscasts come over in a sharp Yankee accent...
...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...
...Government. Last week in the town of Bihatch, capital of the liberated area, 53 delegates from all over Yugoslavia met and elected as President of the Assembly Ivan Ribar, a Croat Catholic lawyer, member of the Serbo-Croat Democratic Party and son of the first President of the National Constitutional Assembly which met in 1918 to organize the State which became Yugoslavia...
Elsewhere in old Yugoslavia at least six smaller Axis-surrounded islands carry on the struggle: 1) in the mountains behind Split, bands of Croats fight the Italians; 2) farther north, around Delnice, other Croats strike hard & often at Italian garrisons near Fiume; 3) eastward on the Croat plain, patriot guerrillas are so active that the Germans have acknowledged the necessity of sending flotillas down the Danube to fight them; 4) in the Croat forests, an underground peasant organization, Zeleni Kadar (Green Quarters), resists both the Germans and their puppet terrorist, Ante Pavelich; 5) Slovenes in the farthest northern section resist...