Word: serb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Civil war in Yugoslavia's craggy hills, a weeks-long Cabinet crisis in the London Government in Exile were the fruits of Occupied Yugoslavia's heroic struggle against the Axis. General Draja Mihailovich, the Serb hero, stood accused of treason after bitter, bloody battles against the Partisans who opposed his dream of a Greater Serbia (TIME...
...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...
General Eisenhower's words accorded with the view that most Americans held of General Mihailovich. But the message also placed General Eisenhower squarely on the painful, baffling Yugoslav political scene-a scene where General Mihailovich's Serb Nationalists are still at odds with Partisan Serbs, Croats, Slovenes (TIME, Dec. 14, Jan. 11). It was by no means certain that the U.S. Government knew enough about the complexities of the scene to justify a clean-cut commitment...
...strong. Neither the army nor the government is "Communist" or "bandit," though some of the leaders, particularly in the army, are Communists. The National Liberation movement is mainly peasant in character, and includes many members of the Serbo-Croat Democratic Party and other peasant organizations-Croat, Serb and Slovene...
...Yugoslav Government in Exile in London, had publicly taken sides with Serb Nationalist Mihailovich. Oldtime Serb nationalists, who hold most of the posts in the Government in Exile, tend to attack the non-Serb elements in Yugoslavia, particularly the Partisans, whom they accuse of plundering the people of Yugoslavia. But poverty-stricken, oppressed Balkan peasants, traditionally pro-Russian, are attracted by slogans, long associated with Moscow, such as "Land to the Landless," "Higher Wages," and "People's Governments." Many Yugoslavs wish their Government would negotiate with the Partisans, through Moscow, to create a unified strategy and perhaps a unified...