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...more than a year the ragged army of Dr. Ivan Ribar's Partisan Veche (Council) has done all the effective fighting against the Axis in Yugoslavia. General Draja Mihailovich, famed Chetnik leader, and the exiled government of adolescent King Peter in London have held that their forces should be saved for the moment of Allied invasion. The Partisans often accused Mihailovich of collaborating with the Axis. Last week it became known that the British, who have been trying to coordinate Yugoslav resistance since last autumn, were making another attempt to persuade Mihailovich to get down to the business...
There was no hint as to Mihailovich's reaction to the British suggestions. But there was plenty of evidence that Yugoslav patriots were fighting the invader with fresh fury. In Montenegro and Bosnia they stopped a new German offensive. Railroad bridges on the Belgrade-Sofia and Belgrade-Salonika lines were destroyed, delaying many important trains. Rome radio reported the capture and execution by guerrillas of Colonel Giuseppe Lispeti, Italian commander in southern Montenegro. The Germans, who two months earlier had announced that the Partisans were wiped out, now reported new "mopping up" operations...
Civil war in Yugoslavia's craggy hills, a weeks-long Cabinet crisis in the London Government in Exile were the fruits of Occupied Yugoslavia's heroic struggle against the Axis. General Draja Mihailovich, the Serb hero, stood accused of treason after bitter, bloody battles against the Partisans who opposed his dream of a Greater Serbia (TIME...
Last week the Chicago Daily News's Bern correspondent reported that Mihailovich had resigned from his post (War Minister) in the Yugoslav Government. In denying this story, the Government in Exile confirmed a hitherto unofficial report that negotiations to end Yugoslavia's tragic schism were under way. Said the official statement: "The tendency at present is toward greater understanding." Mihailovich has been in contact with some of the minor Partisan groups. But the main Partisan force, headed by ex-Lawyer Ivan Ribar (TIME, Feb. 8), was still aloof, and the chances of real unity were therefore small...
Last week President Ribar called a special session of his National Assembly of 68 members, sent a resolution to Washington, London and Moscow placing the Partisan-Mihailovich issue squarely before the principal United Nations. "We made known many times," said the resolution, "that.. . Mihailovich is openly collaborating with the Italians and covertly with the Germans. Mihailovich has no army worthy of name; but a certain number of officers of the old Yugoslav Army, under Axis protection, organized a force of Serb peasants and sent them against our units...