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Caught in the whirlpool, General Draja Mihailovich is operating in general to the southeast of the area held by the Partisans. He has been receiving arms from the Italians. According to the Yugoslav Government in Exile, Mihailovich got arms from the Italians ostensibly to fight the Partisans, but actually put them away for future anti-Axis operations...
...bloody civil war, negotiations opened recently between Moscow and the Yugoslav Government in Exile. But a Soviet note delivered to the emigre government was not published by the Government in Exile. And the exile Government's lengthy replies to Soviet proposals probably took the form of arguments that Mihailovich was the actual leader of all anti-Axis forces in Yugoslavia, accusations that the Russians support the Partisans for ulterior motives. Pressed by journalists, the emigre officials admitted they had no idea where Mihailovich was, that he had been inactive for months while Partisans were doing almost all the fighting...
...Partisans Speak. This state of affairs, plus an Allied note of congratulation to Mihailovich from General Eisenhower (TIME, Jan. 25), got under the skin of the Partisans. Stocky, raven-haired Ivan Ribar, chief of the Partisan Free Yugoslav state, broadcast angrily: "Not only have we inflicted great losses on the Axis enemy . . . but for the first time the peoples of Yugoslavia have been united. . . . Don't let Mihailovich's agents crush our unity...
...G.H.Q. in North Africa. They were not released by the U.S. War Department. They were released in London by the Yugoslav Government in Exile. Eleven days after New Year's, the Yugoslavs announced that Eisenhower had sent a New Year's greeting to General Draja Mihailovich...
General Eisenhower's words accorded with the view that most Americans held of General Mihailovich. But the message also placed General Eisenhower squarely on the painful, baffling Yugoslav political scene-a scene where General Mihailovich's Serb Nationalists are still at odds with Partisan Serbs, Croats, Slovenes (TIME, Dec. 14, Jan. 11). It was by no means certain that the U.S. Government knew enough about the complexities of the scene to justify a clean-cut commitment...