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...only leader of open warfare against Adolf Hitler on the continent of Europe today is a gallant, stocky man who likes to play peasant songs on the mandolin. For months, in the Yugoslav mountains south of Belgrade, General Draja Mihailovich and his 100,000 super-guerrillas have fought off as many as seven German divisions (TIME, Dec. 15), inspired by a magnificent will to resist. But recently General Mihailovich radioed the exiled Yugoslav Government in London that his ammunition was running...
...slicing down out of the mountains, the attacks of "Communists and rebels." But the Nazis presently felt obliged to declare a state of war in Yugoslavia, and in October even sued for peace. A Serb puppet and several Nazi officers were taken, blindfolded, on a long motor ride to Mihailovich's mountain headquarters. When they refused his demand that the execution of Serbs stop, that the Nazis withdraw from Serb provinces (except Belgrade and Nish), General Mihailovich is said to have sworn to fight "to the last German." By the end of November the Nazis had thrown five divisions...
...Draja Mihailovich, 47, is a stocky, jovial father of five who with equal spirit plays the mandolin and fights. Born in Ivanjica, Serbia, in the territory he now holds, he was raised, after the early death of his parents, by an uncle who was a Serb colonel. Draja went to the Serbian Military Academy at 15, was wounded fighting the Turks in 1913 and the Austrians...
...staff activity, became an expert on Nazi fifth-column activity. Early in 1940 he was sentenced to 30 days in jail for "disloyalty" in filing documents on the fifth column with Regent Prince Paul and the Serb quisling-to-be, General Milutin Nedich. Friends near the high command had Mihailovich freed...
...London last week the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile did General Mihailovich proper honors; they made him Minister of War. At the same time General Dusan Simovich, who led last winter's revolt against the pro-Axis compromises of Regent Prince Paul, was succeeded as Premier by dwarfish, dynamic Slobodan Jovanovich, 72, a liberal, gifted historian and jurist who may be expected to harmonize all anti-Axis Yugoslav elements, Serb, Croat and Slovene...