Word: mihailovich
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should like to take [St. John] to the Yugoslav Displaced Persons Camp near Suez in the Sinai Desert. Of course, they're all pro-Mihailovich; some of them haven't seen their families for years. . . . They live in tents. They're cared for by the former UNRRA (now IRO). They have enough to eat and are well clothed...
Almost everyone had bloodcurdling anecdotes about Mihailovich and his Chetniks, whom they considered no better than Hitler and his Nazis. Author St. John scanned the horizon for opponents of New Yugoslavia, but they were as scarce as Tories in the Kremlin. The few he did find turned out to be selfish little rascals whose only aim was to get their confiscated property or obtain a U.S. passport...
...Communists have almost throttled open opposition in Eastern Europe. Last week their stooges took over the remnants of Mikolajcyk's Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...small, backward countries of eastern and southern Europe, the Communists needed only to discredit, jail or kill a few men to silence all opposition. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept...
...columns, the radio commentaries, the periodicals and publishing houses and other agencies of communication and education. When it goes into action, it can mold public opinion on many vital issues. Some brilliant feats have been pulled off-for example, the campaign for a second front, and the campaigns against Mihailovich and Chiang Kaishek...