Word: purich
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...soon as possible, to gather all forces together for that purpose in priority to any other purpose." For that reason, the Allies had recognized the ascendancy of Communist Marshal Tito and his Partisans. Churchill recorded the already known fact that young King Peter had fired his exiled Premier Bozhidar Purich and his War Minister, Chetnik General Draja Mihailovich (who "has not been fighting the enemy"). Then Churchill recognized a long-range, sometimes overlooked fact about multiracial Yugoslavia...
Yugoslavia's youthful Peter II turned up in London last week, summoned by a commoner, to test his chances of remaining king. He came in style and in haste, in Winston Churchill's private plane, and with him he brought his worried Premier, Bozhida Purich. His fiancée, Princess Alexandra of Greece, met him at the airport, whisked him up to London by car. Gossips said a wedding was on Peter's London schedule. Alexandra's uncle, King George of Greece, had also run up from Cairo to London last week, perhaps also summoned...
Peter kept as mum as a king should, pending his talks with Churchill, Eden and Stettinius, due in London soon. But his aides made sure that newsmen saw the eight-point plan that Peter or Purich, or both, hoped to put across. The four main points: divide Yugoslavia between Tito and Mihailovich; set up a joint headquarters under Allied supervision; tell both factions to stop bickering; put off all political settlements until after the war, when King Peter would submit to a plebiscite before attempting to resume his throne...
...Purich, Mihailovich & Co. do not fight the enemy, have committed treason...
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