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Closed Case. To the Katangese, that closed the case. "I forbid the United Nations to take positions in this matter,"said Munongo, adding by way of explanation that the U.N. had never concerned itself about Sacco and Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, Caryl Chessman, Draja Mikhailovich or King Feisal. As for any J.K. investigation, Katanga President Moise Tshombe snapped: "I couldn't give a damn...
...Montenegrin partisan who seemed determined to infuse some humanity into the Communist machine and today, from jail, is one of its more eloquent critics (TIME, Sept. 9); Cardinal Stepinac, a blend of defiance and mystic righteousness that Tito was never able to break; and the bearded anti-Communist chetnik, Draja Mihailovich, whose own children deserted him for Tito during the war and who was finally run down in the hills by the partisans. At his trial, and before his execution, Mihailovich movingly described his doom: "I wanted much; I began much; but the gale of the world carried away...
...When the Germans invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, Tito took to the hills. Stalin, still chummy with Adolf Hitler (the Nazi-Soviet pact stayed in force until June, when the Nazis invaded Russia), ordered the Yugoslav Communists to confine themselves to sabotage. During these first months, Serb Colonel Draja Mihailovich, loyal to the Mon archy, fought off the Nazis. Tito set up a rival guerrilla army, eventually had 150,000 men, enough to tie down 15 Axis divisions. He proved himself the most successful guerrilla commander of World War II. At first the Western Allies supported Mihailovich, but at Winston...
...Premier of King Peter's Yugoslav government in exile and chief architect of the coalition government of Peter's Royalists and Marshal Tito's Partisans; in Zagreb. An early supporter of Tito, Subasich negotiated the agreement that eliminated Allied support of anti-Communist General Draja Mihailovich and paved the way to Tito's rise to power. In 1945 he served as Tito's Foreign Minister, went to Moscow to sign a 20-year treaty with the Soviet Union, but broke with the government six months later and retired...
Maclean's account of life with Tito takes up the most absorbing half of a wholly absorbing book. His prime duties as "Ambassador-leader" were, as Churchill explained, simply to find out which of the guerrilla forces-Tito's Partisans or Royalist General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks-was "killing the most Germans," and to "suggest means by which we could help them to kill more." It did not take Maclean long to conclude that, as a killer, Tito was deadly earnest, Mihailovich increasingly apathetic. Besides, reported Maclean, it was pretty clear that Tito's Partisans were...