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Against Mihailovich. What everyone, particularly Moscow, had long known about Yugoslavia, Winston Churchill now broadcast: The forces of Draja Mihailovich had "made accommodations with [Axis] troops. ... In Marshal Tito the Partisans have found an outstanding leader, glorious in the fight for freedom." Thus Churchill disowned the Royal Yugoslav-Cairo Government's support of General Mihailovich. But the Prime Minister did not disown that Government's titular head, 20-year-old King Peter II. Said Churchill: "We cannot disassociate ourselves in any way from [King Peter]." The implication held a hope: that Peter might yet break away from...
...Closing? As this week began, five columns spearheaded by tanks moved against Tito's forces south and east of Benja Luka. Tito appeared to have suffered heavy losses. He called on Yugoslavs serving under Serbian Puppet Milan Nedich, Croatian Quisling Ante Pavelich, or Chetnik leaders (probably meaning General Draja Mihailovich) to join his forces. With seeming desperation he warned: "Those collaborators who fail to heed the final invitation will be treated as enemies when the day of settlement comes...
...result: widespread recognition in the world's press that the Partisans are doing the fighting in Yugoslavia (estimated strength: 236,000 ill-equipped fighters, many of them women in 26 divisions). Cairo had almost nothing to say about Serb General Draja Mihailovich, who was once the hero of Yugoslavia and the favorite of British officialdom...
There was consternation in Cairo. The new Government, the first to be formed of men who had endured Nazi occupation, ignored young King Peter and his War Minister, Draja Mihailovich, leader of the quiescent Serb Chetníks. Also ignored was the fact that the Government in Exile had been recognized by the Great Powers (including Russia, which has nevertheless nourished the Partisans). To the men of Jajce, a government abroad is no government; a denouncing king in Cairo is no king...
Sued for Divorce. By Ruth Mitchell, fiftyish, "blood-brother" of Yugoslavia's guerrilla leader Draja Mihailovich, sister of the late aerophile General William ("Billy") Mitchell: Stanley Knowles, British schoolmaster, her second husband; after 18 years of marriage, eleven of separation; in Reno...