Word: draja
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...Eisenhower's G.H.Q. in North Africa. They were not released by the U.S. War Department. They were released in London by the Yugoslav Government in Exile. Eleven days after New Year's, the Yugoslavs announced that Eisenhower had sent a New Year's greeting to General Draja Mihailovich...
...signed the U.S. master Lend-Lease agreement in 1942, Ninchich was a sacrifice in a Cabinet reshuffle designed to "achieve unity among various groups inside the country and to strengthen the Government." His place was taken by another oldster, Premier Slobodan Yovanovich, who announced that General Draja Mihailovich would continue (from inside embattled Yugoslavia) as Minister...
Quite different were the military triumphs of Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich, who capitalized on a conquered nation's unconquerable urge for freedom to fight when fighting seemed impossible. But before the year was out thousands of his countrymen, probably distrusting the Yugoslav Government...
...many suggestions of Draja Mihailovich as TIME's Man of the Year should be treated with great caution...
Mihailovich the Chetnilc. Misled by previous reports, many a U.S. citizen had come to identify General Draja Mihailovich and his Chetniks with the resistance of the peoples of Europe to Nazi invaders.* By last week it was clear that the Partisans had eclipsed Mihailovich. Axis military communiques referred consistently to the resistance of the Partisans, rarely mentioned Mihailovich. As might be expected, Axis propaganda described the Partisans as cutthroats, Communists and bandits. In London Yugoslav officials connected with the Government in exile used the same epithets...