Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff of our London office and kept in close touch with the Balkan underground (he is one big reason why TIME has so often been first to bring you news of the dramatic events bubbling up in Yugoslavia-first to focus your attention on the rise of Mihailovich, then first to call the turn on the clash between Mihailovich and Tito...
Yugoslavia's youthful King Peter II, exiled in London, had two long conversations with Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Then Peter fired his Government. Prime Minister Bozhidar Punch. War Minister Draja Mihailovich lost their jobs. But Peter's royal prospects remained poor...
...Todorovich, they ran counter to some powerful testimony. Winston Churchill had said in February that Tito had 250 thousand men, was pinning down 14 German divisions, would continue to receive the bulk of Allied aid because he was doing the bulk of the fighting. Highest current British estimate of Mihailovich's strength: 15,000 and dwindling...
Plainly the men around King Peter were up against tremendous odds in their drive to rehabilitate Mihailovich and the cause of the strongly nationalist Serbs. To make their problem harder, Tito's sponsors in Moscow threw out a blunt hint, via War & The Working Class: "It is high time . . . the Governments of the United Nations broke off diplomatic relations with the bankrupt group of Yugoslav officials and police in Cairo who represent nobody but themselves. It is high time to recognize [Tito's] Government...
...News. In these and the Eighth's News he jumped from the military into the political field. He roasted the U.S. for not imprisoning more Fascists in Italy, criticized the unchecked Italian profiteering, the kid-glove treatment of King Vittorio Emanuele. Last October Charlton's News attacked Mihailovich's conduct in Yugoslavia. Again Parliament seethed, later came around to switching sympathies (and supplies) to Communist Mar shal Tito...