Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgrade prison cell, Draja Mihailovich awaited trial for treason (though he claimed that he had fought against Germany for his king & country). Marshal Tito (who had fought more effectively against Germany, but for Stalin & Communism) spoke sentence ahead of the judges: "[His] crimes against the people of Yugoslavia are far too big and horrible [to permit discussion of] whether he is guilty or not." 500-odd U.S. airmen who had fought in Yugoslavia disagreed...
They did not know much about Balkan politics, but they were sure that Mihailovich was a right guy, and they said so in hundreds of protest letters. Last week some of them turned up at the New York County Lawyers' Association in Manhattan's Vesey Street to testify before the Committee for a Fair Trial for Mihailovich. Excerpts...
...nearly two years Tito's men hunted their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...
Early in the German occupation, Mihailovich was hailed as hero and leader of the Yugoslav resistance movement. But after Tito's Partisans rose up to battle the Germans, he turned from fighting the invader to fighting his rivals...
...predict the Teheran conference between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. In November 1943 he suggested a United Nations Council, with headquarters in the U.S. He tactfully called it "the Big Four," leaving out his still-prostrate France. Long before most others did, he foresaw Marshal Tito's triumph over Mihailovich...