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...comes via Algiers from Stoyan Pribichevich, who was captured (instead of Tito) by the Nazis in Yugoslavia...
Last month came the first news of the grim medicine practiced among Yugoslavia's Partisans, where doctors fight shattering wounds, frostbite and typhus almost without equipment (TIME, May 8). Last fortnight, TIME'S Stoyan Pribichevich, chosen by lot to represent the U.S. and British press in Yugoslavia, sent out a pooled dispatch containing more details on Yugoslav medicine. Excerpts...
...Stoyan himself joined our staff in 1940, right after he finished World Without End, a history the New York Times called "the best book about the Balkans in a long time." At first he worked as a writer for FORTUNE, but after Yugoslavia was overrun by the Nazis his one wish was to get back to his own country as a TIME correspondent. Until last fall, the closest he could get was Britain, where he worked on the staff of our London office and kept in close touch with the Balkan underground (he is one big reason why TIME...
Early this winter we moved Stoyan one step nearer his goal, sent him to Cairo as a correspondent accredited to the Mediterranean theater. As soon as he reached Egypt he began practicing parachute jumps, to be ready at a moment's notice to be dropped on his native land. In one of these jumps he fractured his left foot, and for a while he was heartbroken at the thought that the accident might cost him the assignment in the Balkans...
German Europe's long darkness had begun to lift. Last week, from Partisan Yugoslavia, TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich sent an account of everyday life behind the German rampart...