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...Then, after Hitler's fateful invasion of Russia in 1941, Josip Broz suddenly emerged from the fog as Tito the Partisan, who fiercely fought Germans (as well as non-Communist Yugoslavs who followed the late General Draja Mihailovich).* His new revolutionary nom de guerre is variously explained as derived from: 1) the initials of Tajna Internacionalna Terroristicka Organizacija (Secret International Terrorist Organization); 2) St. Titus, a convert from paganism who, it is believed, also did missionary work in the Balkans; 3) a legendary 13th-Century Slav warrior called Tito, who is reported to have killed more Mongols than anyone...
...20th-century Tito quickly attained similar distinction: Winston Churchill himself reported that Tito was killing more Germans than anyone else in Yugoslavia. So Allied support switched from Mihailovich to Tito. After a brief period of misty enthusiasm-he was presented as charming, kindly, courageous, only incidentally Communist and a self-made marshal-the fog of mystery lifted for good. Marshal Tito emerged as one of the Kremlin's most faithful, fanatical, and efficient proletarian proconsuls...
Chief among these undesirable elements: local "reactionaries" (e.g., Mihailovich in Adamic's native Yugoslavia) and representatives of Imperial Britain as in Greece). Adamic seemed to worry little about local Communists and representatives of Imperial U.S.S.R. His hope was that Britain-and the Soviet Union-would think it "wise" for the U.S. teams to take charge, at least for a while...
Died. General Draja Mihailovich, 53, leader of Chetnik resistance to Axis armies, former Minister of War in King Peter II's Government in Exile, and its chief representative in Yugoslavia up to March 1944; before a firing squad, after conviction by a Tito court of "treason and collaboration with the enemy...
Five days later the court sentenced (but did not silence) Draja Mihailovich: "To be shot by a firing squad...