Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days he sought refuge in scapegoats. He said his aides and subordinates, over whom he had had no control, had collaborated with the Nazis and received money from the Italians. "With Serbs it is not rare if every man carries out his own policy," said Mihailovich. But by the fourth day he was too tired. "You collaborated with the enemy. Is that right?" asked the prosecutor. Mihailovich hung his head and whispered, "Yes, that is right...
...When I am too tired," said Draja Mihailovich...
...returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best defense lawyers could lift his pessimism. "I wish you wouldn't torture me with rhetoric," Mihailovich begged the court. "I am a soldier too weary to remember." Time & again all that he could say was "I don't know" or "I'm not sure...
Staff Sergeant William P. Whelan, East Pittsburgh, Pa.: "One day we saw General Mihailovich. We got his autograph and he was very amused by this. ... I get very mad when I know that he is classified as a traitor and his life is at stake...
...direct responsibility in the matter." But the U.S.'s official protests had been in vain and Washington was not prepared to take further action. Only the 500 grateful U.S. fliers were still trying. Their testimony would be forwarded to Marshal Tito in a probably futile effort to save Mihailovich's life...