Word: serb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pointedly referring to those who still oppose Tito and cry up Serb General Mihailovich, General Simovich said: "The slogans of the defense of the threatened Serbdom and of the struggle against Communism are only masks to conceal the personal ambitions of individuals . . . the interests of profiteers and grafters whose aims are opposite to the sentiments of the great part of the Serbs and to the common interests of the Serbs and of Yugoslavia...
While Tito's conglomerate Croats, Slovenes and Serbs fought on, whatever forces remained to the lone-wolf Serb, General Mihailovich, were inactive somewhere in the interior. In Cairo, the coterie around exiled King Peter suggested that the Allies would yet thank Mihailovich for conserving his forces, holding his punch until invasion comes...
...result: widespread recognition in the world's press that the Partisans are doing the fighting in Yugoslavia (estimated strength: 236,000 ill-equipped fighters, many of them women in 26 divisions). Cairo had almost nothing to say about Serb General Draja Mihailovich, who was once the hero of Yugoslavia and the favorite of British officialdom...
There was consternation in Cairo. The new Government, the first to be formed of men who had endured Nazi occupation, ignored young King Peter and his War Minister, Draja Mihailovich, leader of the quiescent Serb Chetníks. Also ignored was the fact that the Government in Exile had been recognized by the Great Powers (including Russia, which has nevertheless nourished the Partisans). To the men of Jajce, a government abroad is no government; a denouncing king in Cairo is no king...
...heard enough. For a year the rival claims of General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks and Drug (Comrade) Tito's Partisans had blurred the picture of resistance in Yugoslavia. For a year the Yugoslav Government in Exile had sought to bury the fact that its War Minister, Serb Mihailovich, was doing little or nothing, that all or most of the pressure on the Nazis was coming from Tito's guerrillas, who call themselves the Army of Liberation (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942). Each band has accused the other of working with the Germans...