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...nearly two years Tito's men hunted their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...
...behavior of students in Trieste's Slovene-language schools. It was far beyond anything in his experience as a fine arts professor in a Kansas university. On a visit to the schools he had been shocked to see "walls just plastered with inscriptions reading 'Viva Tito,' 'Viva Stalin,' 'Down with this and down with that.' " When students left their classes to join a demonstration staged by the pro-Tito Italo-Slovene Anti-Fascist Union, it was too much. The Captain issued a decree closing the city's three Slovene high schools...
...Wants What? In London the foreign ministers' deputies, who have been hashing over peace preliminaries, bogged down. They had discovered that no one treaty or situation can be settled by itself, because Russia sees the peace problem as a whole. Thus Russia might eventually desert Tito on Trieste if she can get what she wants in Iran, while her demand for a sole trusteeship of Tripoli may be a bargainer for complete freedom of the Dardanelles. Meanwhile the Russian delegates can only parrot well-known Moscow claims in well-worn formulas. Unless the deadlock is soon., broken from above...
...case as usual had been damaged by U.S. practice. In Bavaria, one General Radovan Popovitch had organized 10,000 compatriots into a "Royal Yugoslav Army," rented some of them out to the U.S. Army. Washington ordered these mercenaries dismissed. At week's end Vishinsky presented a Tito complaint against the use on the Italo-Yugoslav frontier of General Wladyslaw Anders' émigré Polish army-which is paid by the British...
...certainly have their eyes on the pipeline in the Levant states, which last week asked UNO for withdrawal of British and French troops. Russian diplomatic radar is feeling out the Arab League. Turkey is under pressure to let Russia dominate the Dardanelles. Russia's good friend Tito is still clamoring for Trieste on the Adriatic, and Russia herself is clamoring for a one-panel trusteeship in Tripolitania...