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...route to London was another Yugoslav: Tito's Foreign Minister, Josip Smodlaka, whom Churchill had summoned to the same conference. Three weeks ago the British leader had called Tito an "outstanding leader," said, regretfully, that Peter's War Minister, Mihailovich, had trafficked with the enemy. Recently, too, Captain Randolph Churchill, the Prime Minister's son, had parachuted into Tito's mountain headquarters...
Peter kept as mum as a king should, pending his talks with Churchill, Eden and Stettinius, due in London soon. But his aides made sure that newsmen saw the eight-point plan that Peter or Purich, or both, hoped to put across. The four main points: divide Yugoslavia between Tito and Mihailovich; set up a joint headquarters under Allied supervision; tell both factions to stop bickering; put off all political settlements until after the war, when King Peter would submit to a plebiscite before attempting to resume his throne...
Against Mihailovich. What everyone, particularly Moscow, had long known about Yugoslavia, Winston Churchill now broadcast: The forces of Draja Mihailovich had "made accommodations with [Axis] troops. ... In Marshal Tito the Partisans have found an outstanding leader, glorious in the fight for freedom." Thus Churchill disowned the Royal Yugoslav-Cairo Government's support of General Mihailovich. But the Prime Minister did not disown that Government's titular head, 20-year-old King Peter II. Said Churchill: "We cannot disassociate ourselves in any way from [King Peter]." The implication held a hope: that Peter might yet break away from...
Pointedly referring to those who still oppose Tito and cry up Serb General Mihailovich, General Simovich said: "The slogans of the defense of the threatened Serbdom and of the struggle against Communism are only masks to conceal the personal ambitions of individuals . . . the interests of profiteers and grafters whose aims are opposite to the sentiments of the great part of the Serbs and to the common interests of the Serbs and of Yugoslavia...
This pronouncement indicated that Tito had definitely won Yugoslavia's long ballot of blood and was now on top in the struggle for authority among Yugoslavs. Die-hard royalist Serbs in Cairo, including young King Peter II, knew that Simovich was talking straight at them...