Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wehrmacht ten days to overrun the unprepared country. The British, who are believed to have inspired the coup against him, hauled Prince Paul away to South Africa, where they are still paying his Johannesburg nightclub chits. King Peter fled first to Athens, then London. But a Yugoslav colonel, Draja Mihailovich, retired to the hills with a handful of soldiers and kept on fighting. He may or may not have heard about the hard-faced Croat named Tito, who, a month before the German armies invaded Russia, had re appeared in Zagreb and Belgrade...
Reported Dead. Mme. Draja Mihailovich, wife of Yugoslavia's supplanted chieftain, mother of the Chetnik guerrilla's five children, two years, five months after she was seized by the Germans as a hostage. According to Polish underground sources, she died in the Nazis' notorious Oswiecim (Poland) concentration camp...
...that purpose in priority to any other purpose." For that reason, the Allies had recognized the ascendancy of Communist Marshal Tito and his Partisans. Churchill recorded the already known fact that young King Peter had fired his exiled Premier Bozhidar Purich and his War Minister, Chetnik General Draja Mihailovich (who "has not been fighting the enemy"). Then Churchill recognized a long-range, sometimes overlooked fact about multiracial Yugoslavia...
...This question does not turn on General Mihailovich alone. There is also a very large body, amounting perhaps to 200,000 Serbian peasant property owners, who are anti-German but strongly Serbian. . . . They are not as enthusiastic in regard to Communism as some of those in Croatia and Slovenia. Marshal Tito has largely sunk his Communistic aspect in his character as a Yugoslav patriotic leader. He has repeatedly proclaimed that he has no intention of reversing [Serbia's] property and social systems . . . but these facts are not accepted yet by the other side...
...harassed King said that he wanted a "neutral" government, i.e., one composed of men supporting neither Tito nor Mihailovich. To form such a cabinet, he summoned Ivan Subasich, onetime Governor of Croatia, a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, who had recently lived in the U.S. Handsome, hardy Dr. Subasich was flatly anti-Mihailovich, pro-Tito. His assignment was tough. Its success depended on Russian approval, since Tito would surely look to Moscow for guidance...