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...covered with heather and dotted with red-roofed, green-shuttered houses. In Cairo last week R.A.F. spokesmen told about the advance post maintained on the island. Its occupants: U.S. and British forces working hand in glove with Partisan natives. All the islanders old enough to talk swear by Marshal Tito...
...would they say that he had knuckled under to the King to get himself the premiership? Papandreou had dropped a puzzling remark: "Greek politics have changed. We are no longer royalists or republicans. Just nationalists or extreme left-wingers." The committeemen of the mountains were in touch with Tito of Yugoslavia, a man with a strikingly similar problem, and they gave evidence of being attuned to suggestions from Moscow...
Heroism and sacrifice sprouted richly in the green mountains of Yugoslavia. With them the tares of pain, hunger and disease grew too. They maimed men's bodies and spirits, crippled Marshal Tito's guerrilla army. Last week, from two firsthand reports, direct word of this suffering came to the Allies...
Nails through Bones. Dr. X is a tough New Zealander who asked for a transfer to Yugoslavia a year ago after performing 9,000 operations in Africa. On landing he was arrested by guerrillas, freed by Marshal Tito, who told him to set up a 200-cot hospital in a farmhouse...
Last summer 35% of Tito's men had typhus, said Dr. Nikolic. So he declared war on lice, and two months ago the rate had dropped to less than 1%. But disease, as in all wars, still kills more than enemy bullets...