Word: mihailovich
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...next fall Composer Bartok will have ready for publication a fat, scholarly book containing 75 of the best Yugoslav love songs. Whatever happens to heroic Draja Mihailovich and his warriors, the voice of Yugoslavia will be preserved...
Biggest island of freedom in Europe is the wild mountainous triangle of old Serbia dominated by General Draja Mihailovich. The Yugoslavs fight in a bumptiously Balkan way: in separate groups divided by ancient hates. Thus, within Mihailovich's domain operates a separate force directed by the Yugoslav Communist Party...
...Reports reaching London said Mihailovich's forces had killed or captured 10,000 Axis soldiers in three recent engagements...
...Italian regulars and Black Shirts to control it. But, as Ante Pavelich soon found out, this was not what some Croats wanted. He dared not go out in the streets without a shield of burly bodyguards. "Communist bands'' became the terror of his troops, and General Draja Mihailovich, whose forces are concentrated in western Croatia, had won thousands of new adherents. What happened last week in Zagreb taught more Croats a lesson: that Serb dominance was to Gestapo dominance as an itch is to a cancer...
...Mihailovich and his hardy warriors have faced not only huge odds, but also staggering tool and supply problems. Most of their arms were Yugoslav army equipment hauled hastily into the mountains before the Germans advanced beyond Belgrade. Since then a little matériel has been dropped by parachute to Mihailovich, and some smuggled into Serbia from dissident elements in the Hungarian army...