Word: yugoslav
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain-based planes. The arc of the Alps could be bypassed by land troops without danger of an Italian flank attack along the historic Balkan route to Germany's back door. Along part of that route Yugoslav partisans last week had a new fighting front...
...peoples of Europe to Nazi invaders.* By last week it was clear that the Partisans had eclipsed Mihailovich. Axis military communiques referred consistently to the resistance of the Partisans, rarely mentioned Mihailovich. As might be expected, Axis propaganda described the Partisans as cutthroats, Communists and bandits. In London Yugoslav officials connected with the Government in exile used the same epithets...
...humble opinion, will go down in the annals of historic achievement as one of the most remarkable characters, and perhaps one of the greatest patriots of Allied Nations embroiled in World War II. I refer to General Draja Mihailovich, Minister of War to the Yugoslav Government-in-Exile. . . . This little man with an iron will whose unsung praises will one day be heralded to a people victoriously released from the yoke of our common enemy...
...Yugoslav People's Army (Partisans), under onetime Spanish Republican Leader Kosta Naditch, continued an offensive hopefully timed to relieve pressure on Russia. Other Communist-led Partisan groups operated in a belt running intermittently from near the Italian border through Montenegro and Southern Serbia. > In Plovdiv, Bulgaria, guerrillas or parachutists blew up an armament works, wrecking buildings, machines and stocks of rifle barrels...
...Yugoslav Government in Exile in London, had publicly taken sides with Serb Nationalist Mihailovich. Oldtime Serb nationalists, who hold most of the posts in the Government in Exile, tend to attack the non-Serb elements in Yugoslavia, particularly the Partisans, whom they accuse of plundering the people of Yugoslavia. But poverty-stricken, oppressed Balkan peasants, traditionally pro-Russian, are attracted by slogans, long associated with Moscow, such as "Land to the Landless," "Higher Wages," and "People's Governments." Many Yugoslavs wish their Government would negotiate with the Partisans, through Moscow, to create a unified strategy and perhaps a unified...