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...General Mihailovich now commands between 35 and 40 thousand effectives . . . will mobilize no less than 400 thousand effectives on the day Allied invasion forces land in Yugoslavia. . . . Tito's Partisans do not exceed 20 thousand fighting men. . . . Mihailovich's army is ... representative of the peasants, the workers, the artisans-in a word, the people of Yugoslavia. ... It is sometimes falsely believed that Tito brings progressive ideas to Yugoslavia. Ninety percent of Tito's Partisans are Communists. . . . They kill the most intelligent peasants. . . . Mihailovich is ... very glad about Soviet successes [but] Yugoslavs like their king...
...their reports corroborated Todorovich, they ran counter to some powerful testimony. Winston Churchill had said in February that Tito had 250 thousand men, was pinning down 14 German divisions, would continue to receive the bulk of Allied aid because he was doing the bulk of the fighting. Highest current British estimate of Mihailovich's strength: 15,000 and dwindling...
Plainly the men around King Peter were up against tremendous odds in their drive to rehabilitate Mihailovich and the cause of the strongly nationalist Serbs. To make their problem harder, Tito's sponsors in Moscow threw out a blunt hint, via War & The Working Class: "It is high time . . . the Governments of the United Nations broke off diplomatic relations with the bankrupt group of Yugoslav officials and police in Cairo who represent nobody but themselves. It is high time to recognize [Tito's] Government...
...imprisoning more Fascists in Italy, criticized the unchecked Italian profiteering, the kid-glove treatment of King Vittorio Emanuele. Last October Charlton's News attacked Mihailovich's conduct in Yugoslavia. Again Parliament seethed, later came around to switching sympathies (and supplies) to Communist Mar shal Tito...
...opponents saved him. Spectacular, destructive fighting raged for two days. Great fires spread in the city (casualties included the local office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs). Then the rebels fled, or were killed or captured. Their airplanes ran out of gas or flew off to Honduras. Colonel Tito Calvo was reportedly captured and shot. Dr. Arturo Romero, Paris trained skin specialist and civilian leader of the revolt, may have found sanctuary in the Mexican Embassy...