Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, a proud young man from the Serbian mountains told newsmen that General Draja Mihailovich had been misunderstood. While smiling Yugoslav Ambassador Constantin Fotich stood by, offering reporters Scotch and tasty sandwiches, dashing Captain Borislav Todorovich, late of Mihailovich's staff and now assistant military attaché, registered his complete dissent from the evidence on which Allied policy toward Yugoslavia has been based. Said Captain Todorovich...
...General Mihailovich now commands between 35 and 40 thousand effectives . . . will mobilize no less than 400 thousand effectives on the day Allied invasion forces land in Yugoslavia. . . . Tito's Partisans do not exceed 20 thousand fighting men. . . . Mihailovich's army is ... representative of the peasants, the workers, the artisans-in a word, the people of Yugoslavia. ... It is sometimes falsely believed that Tito brings progressive ideas to Yugoslavia. Ninety percent of Tito's Partisans are Communists. . . . They kill the most intelligent peasants. . . . Mihailovich is ... very glad about Soviet successes [but] Yugoslavs like their king...
...king should, pending his talks with Churchill, Eden and Stettinius, due in London soon. But his aides made sure that newsmen saw the eight-point plan that Peter or Purich, or both, hoped to put across. The four main points: divide Yugoslavia between Tito and Mihailovich; set up a joint headquarters under Allied supervision; tell both factions to stop bickering; put off all political settlements until after the war, when King Peter would submit to a plebiscite before attempting to resume his throne...
...Purich, Mihailovich & Co. do not fight the enemy, have committed treason...
Diplomats understood perfectly what it was that the Kremlin wanted Churchill and Stettinius to keep in mind while talking with King Peter: no compromise with Mihailovich and friends...