Word: mihailovich
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British recognition came to the Partisans last week. Speaking unobtrusively from Cairo, the British Government officially admitted the existence of military liaison with ragged, intense, mystery-man Tito, chief of staff for Ivan Ribar's People's Army of Liberation. British liaison with General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks, standing enemies of the Partisans, has long been known. The Partisans charge that Mihailovich finagles with the Axis (TIME...
...winning a victory. But in the months of the growing crisis their voice became stronger. Last April Milan Grol submitted to Premier Yovanovich a memorandum criticizing the Government's failure to: 1) smooth out relations with Russia; 2) bring about a rapprochement between the Partisans and General Draja Mihailovich; 3) bind the Government to a policy of Serbo-Croatian-Slovenian unity in federal democracy. The memorandum was never submitted to the Cabinet...
...more than a year the ragged army of Dr. Ivan Ribar's Partisan Veche (Council) has done all the effective fighting against the Axis in Yugoslavia. General Draja Mihailovich, famed Chetnik leader, and the exiled government of adolescent King Peter in London have held that their forces should be saved for the moment of Allied invasion. The Partisans often accused Mihailovich of collaborating with the Axis. Last week it became known that the British, who have been trying to coordinate Yugoslav resistance since last autumn, were making another attempt to persuade Mihailovich to get down to the business...
There was no hint as to Mihailovich's reaction to the British suggestions. But there was plenty of evidence that Yugoslav patriots were fighting the invader with fresh fury. In Montenegro and Bosnia they stopped a new German offensive. Railroad bridges on the Belgrade-Sofia and Belgrade-Salonika lines were destroyed, delaying many important trains. Rome radio reported the capture and execution by guerrillas of Colonel Giuseppe Lispeti, Italian commander in southern Montenegro. The Germans, who two months earlier had announced that the Partisans were wiped out, now reported new "mopping up" operations...
Last week the Chicago Daily News's Bern correspondent reported that Mihailovich had resigned from his post (War Minister) in the Yugoslav Government. In denying this story, the Government in Exile confirmed a hitherto unofficial report that negotiations to end Yugoslavia's tragic schism were under way. Said the official statement: "The tendency at present is toward greater understanding." Mihailovich has been in contact with some of the minor Partisan groups. But the main Partisan force, headed by ex-Lawyer Ivan Ribar (TIME, Feb. 8), was still aloof, and the chances of real unity were therefore small...