Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yenan's stiffening attitude toward Chungking had its counterpart in Moscow. Where two years ago there was relative aloofness between Russia and Chungking, there is now undisguised hostility. Moscow's War and the Working Class has tossed epithets like "Mihailovich" and "Quisling" at Kuomintang leaders. Izvestia has belittled T. V. Soong's administrative reforms. Bolshevik has praised Yenan's army and called Chiang's troops "passive spectators at best" in the fight against Japan. A Russian bestseller, Alexander Stepanov's novel Port Arthur, claimed Manchuria's key port as "Russian soil...
...Draja Mihailovich, former Yugoslav war minister, was held for trial for opposing Tito and aiding the Nazis...
Into Trieste, as the Germans retreated, crowded Marshal Tito's Yugoslav partisans, Italian Communist partisans, Italian non-Communist partisans and (to the surprise of most people who had all but forgotten them) General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks. Yugoslavs and Italians at once asserted squatters' rights...
Promptly, Marshal Tito promised amnesty to all the Chetnik followers of General Draja Mihailovich (against whom he had fought since 1942) who surrendered before Jan. 15. Tito also ordered 2,000 industrial and commercial enterprises, several banks, 30,000 farms nationalized...
...friend of Czechoslovakia's late, great Thomas Masaryk, onetime Yugoslav Minister to the Vatican; the Rev. Vlado Zecevic, Minister of the Interior (and hence in charge of the police). Minister Zecevic was an Orthodox priest who commanded a detachment of Chetniks until late 1941, when he switched from Mihailovich to Tito...