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Agriculture: Carlos Montenegro, 40, pockmarked, dour, good hater and trickiest politico...
There was no hint as to Mihailovich's reaction to the British suggestions. But there was plenty of evidence that Yugoslav patriots were fighting the invader with fresh fury. In Montenegro and Bosnia they stopped a new German offensive. Railroad bridges on the Belgrade-Sofia and Belgrade-Salonika lines were destroyed, delaying many important trains. Rome radio reported the capture and execution by guerrillas of Colonel Giuseppe Lispeti, Italian commander in southern Montenegro. The Germans, who two months earlier had announced that the Partisans were wiped out, now reported new "mopping up" operations...
...heterogeneous band suffered a serious defeat near Valjevo at the hands of German mechanized columns. The Chetnik Army splintered. Whole units under Mihailovich's former subordinates, Gjayitch and Drenovich, joined the Italians. Others went back to their farms. Mihailovich himself retired to relative inactivity somewhere in Montenegro, avoiding action except for a sharp attack last June against a Partisan army fighting the Italians in southern Montenegro. Montenegrin Partisans charge that in certain instances Mihailovich collaborated with the Italians...
...liberated territory, featuring well-known actors and the entire orchestra of the Zagreb National Theater, which had joined the Partisans. The new State had a Foreign Office, though only one foreign diplomat was present: Ivan Lebedyev, onetime counsellor of the Russian legation in Belgrade, who fled to Montenegro last year and is now Moscow's liaison officer with the Partisans...
...Yugoslav People's Army (Partisans), under onetime Spanish Republican Leader Kosta Naditch, continued an offensive hopefully timed to relieve pressure on Russia. Other Communist-led Partisan groups operated in a belt running intermittently from near the Italian border through Montenegro and Southern Serbia. > In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, guerrillas or parachutists blew up an armament works, wrecking buildings, machines and stocks of rifle barrels...