Word: partisan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect that the HBSA subscribe to at least one Democratic New York paper, pointing out that the Atlanta Journal is the only Democratic paper taken among the fifty to which the HBSA subscribes. The motion was seconded by his colleague, Turlington, and was defeated by the usual partisan six-to-two count...
...Britain supports reactionary Yugoslav Government in Exile and Draja Mihailo-vich, while Russia supports the Partisan groups which work for a Greater Yugoslavia...
...Partisans Speak. This state of affairs, plus an Allied note of congratulation to Mihailovich from General Eisenhower (TIME, Jan. 25), got under the skin of the Partisans. Stocky, raven-haired Ivan Ribar, chief of the Partisan Free Yugoslav state, broadcast angrily: "Not only have we inflicted great losses on the Axis enemy . . . but for the first time the peoples of Yugoslavia have been united. . . . Don't let Mihailovich's agents crush our unity...
Last week President Ribar called a special session of his National Assembly of 68 members, sent a resolution to Washington, London and Moscow placing the Partisan-Mihailovich issue squarely before the principal United Nations. "We made known many times," said the resolution, "that.. . Mihailovich is openly collaborating with the Italians and covertly with the Germans. Mihailovich has no army worthy of name; but a certain number of officers of the old Yugoslav Army, under Axis protection, organized a force of Serb peasants and sent them against our units...
Said Ed Flynn: "I am unwilling to permit my candidacy to be made the excuse for partisan political debate in the Senate. . . . What happens to me is of no importance...