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...Last week the new Office of War Information issued its first pamphlet: a detailed, bits-&-pieces account of underground resistance to Hitler in France, the Lowlands and the Balkans, by thousands of nameless patriots and by some known to the world, such as the Serbs' Mihailovich. Said Director Elmer Davis, summing up the message of The Unconquered Peoples: "When the time comes to create a second front it will be effectively supported as a front of liberation...
First nation to re-establish headquarters on the Continent to fight the Axis, Yugoslavia last week transferred its army high command from Cairo back to the homeland and made hawk-beaked, fabulous General Draja Mihailovich chief of staff. Because some of his most effective support comes from Communist partisans, who were probably better organized among Slavic peoples than any others in Europe, it was a good guess that General Mihailovich's appointment had the assent of the U.S.S.R. Like most other Serbs, Mihailovich had been pro-Russian in the long-standing Balkan struggle between Teuton and Slav...
...Yugoslavia's private second front, and this arouses fear that resistance is ending. But last week reports from southeast Europe told of widened Yugoslav operations that spread even across the Croat frontier into Italy. South of Zagreb fighting was in progress for two communications centers, while in Serbia Mihailovich's forces had repulsed an onslaught by one German, one Bulgarian and two or three Italian divisions, far outnumbering the Yugoslav patriots...
...raids into Italy, hitting in the vicinity of Fiume and Trieste, were part of guerrilla operations that constantly harass Axis communication and supply lines, keep the Italians in jittery jeopardy. Russian reports said that several railway stations had been captured by General Mihailovich's Yugoslavs from German-Italian forces; they claimed that 39 locomotives and quantities of rolling stock had been destroyed...
...Balkans the struggle of guerrillas against occupying Axis troops grew hotter as the weather cleared. From Yugoslavia's island of freedom (TIME, May 25) came news last week that General Draja Mihailovich's Army, now grown to a total of 200,000 men, had swooped down to attack Axis columns in Bosnia, then had retired again to craggy hideouts. In Croatia, deserters from Pavelich's Axis-puppet army were forming "Green Cadres" to harass the German. At Metkovich, Dalmatia, guerrillas derailed an Italian troop train, brought Italian casualties in Yugoslavia to a total...