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...sore straits, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought down from the north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
...growing power of Partisan Leader Josip (Marshal Tito) Broz, Russian pressure for Tito's full recognition, and British insistence forced Peter to ditch his anti-Tito ministers. At 20, two months after his marriage to Princess Alexandra...
...point of fighting Partisans who fought for his country's liberation. His power stemmed from Winston Churchill and the British Government, determined to meet Russia's minimum demands for a remodeled, broadened Yugoslav Government. Britain's interest was intelligently selfish: a solution which satisfied Russia, embraced Tito and preserved the monarchy was the only one which could also preserve at least a vestige of British influence in that part of the Mediterranean world...
...stubborn Peter sidestepped the main issue, the question of a plebiscite to determine whether his people want him back. Churchill urged him to promise the plebiscite now. Peter refused; would Tito yield in his demand for a popular vote...
...harassed King said that he wanted a "neutral" government, i.e., one composed of men supporting neither Tito nor Mihailovich. To form such a cabinet, he summoned Ivan Subasich, onetime Governor of Croatia, a leader of the Croatian Peasant Party, who had recently lived in the U.S. Handsome, hardy Dr. Subasich was flatly anti-Mihailovich, pro-Tito. His assignment was tough. Its success depended on Russian approval, since Tito would surely look to Moscow for guidance...