Word: yugoslavic
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...looked not only like a mystery army but a mystery invasion. The operation, it now appeared, was vest-pocket in size. The attack units were apparently only a Commando force-mostly British and quite small indeed. Its purpose seemed to be to join up with Yugoslav and Albanian guerrillas to help cut German escape routes to the north...
...Marshal. Yugoslavia got into the war on the Allied side with no premeditation and almost no preparation. The pro-Axis Regency of Prince Paul had been tolerated until March 1941. When it knuckled under to Hitler's demands that Yugoslavia become a German satellite, the Yugoslavs rebelled. In a bloodless coup détat they tossed out Regent Paul, installed King Peter II, 17. It took the Wehrmacht ten days to overrun the unprepared country. The British, who are believed to have inspired the coup against him, hauled Prince Paul away to South Africa, where they are still paying...
Tito paid a round of quiet visits to Yugoslav leaders, asked them to forget their political differences and unite against the Germans...
...time Tito, the Croat, and Colonel Mihailovich, the Serb, worked together. Then the followers of Draja Mihailovich clashed with Tito's Partisans. Tito accused Mihailovich of collaboration with the Ger mans. What had caused the rift? Was it traditional Yugoslav nationalist differences, subtly played on by the Germans? Had Moscow decided to crowd out the Communists' only important competitor for control of the Yugoslav resistance? Whatever the cause, though Chetniks and Partisans both continued to fight the Germans, they also began to fight each other...
Mission from Britain. At first the outside world heard chiefly the reverberations of the Tito-Mihailovich clashes. In London and Washington the facts of the Yugoslav resistance were obscured in a game of propaganda hide-and-seek. King Peter's men, through ignorance or fear, or both, would not acknowledge the existence of the Communist leader of the Partisans. They controlled the channels of news coming out of Yugoslavia to the Allied side. For two years the Allied public did not even hear of Tito...