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...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...
...Government. Last week in the town of Bihatch, capital of the liberated area, 53 delegates from all over Yugoslavia met and elected as President of the Assembly Ivan Ribar, a Croat Catholic lawyer, member of the Serbo-Croat Democratic Party and son of the first President of the National Constitutional Assembly which met in 1918 to organize the State which became Yugoslavia...