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General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander in Chief in the Middle East, had heard enough. For a year the rival claims of General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks and Drug (Comrade) Tito's Partisans had blurred the picture of resistance in Yugoslavia. For a year the Yugoslav Government in Exile had sought to bury the fact that its War Minister, Serb Mihailovich, was doing little or nothing, that all or most of the pressure on the Nazis was coming from Tito's guerrillas, who call themselves the Army of Liberation (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942). Each band has accused...
...Italy, before he set out, De Luce was warned by "exiles who still are stoutly devoted to General Draja Mihailovich of the danger . . . [but] I've found not one scrap of evidence of Partisan terror...
...Chetniks. The day De Luce visited the Partisans a Swedish journalist stationed in Zurich received a personal letter from General Mihailovich, saying his troops were taking no part in the battles being waged against the Axis. "I have told the British and Americans my army is ready and will begin to fight when the first Allied division lands in Yugoslavia," the War Minister of the Government in Exile added...
Last week in Cairo, King Peter and the rest of his Cabinet in Exile waited patiently. Over the radio the 20-year-old claimant to an overturned throne in Bel grade addressed his subjects, urged them to "obey Mihailovich and other national leaders of your resistance to the enemy and refrain from internal struggle." It was a long step for Peter to mention other leaders; he still could not bring himself to call the Partisans by name...
...Tito is Josip Broz, or Brozovich, 53, Croatian ex-metal worker, Communist-trained leader of the People's Liberation Army, rival organization to General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks. Berlin has offered 100,000 gold marks for either man's head...