Word: yugoslavic
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...medicine practiced among Yugoslavia's Partisans, where doctors fight shattering wounds, frostbite and typhus almost without equipment (TIME, May 8). Last fortnight, TIME'S Stoyan Pribichevich, chosen by lot to represent the U.S. and British press in Yugoslavia, sent out a pooled dispatch containing more details on Yugoslav medicine. Excerpts...
...Partisan wounded have no Red Cross protection. The enemy executes them, for the Yugoslav Government [of the Regent Paul] signed an armistice with the Germans. The Germans regard the Partisans as rebels, not as a regular enemy army...
...sore straits, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring brought down from the north the once-famed Hermann Goring Division, which had been wiped out in Tunisia and since reconstituted. Another reinforcement was an infantry division which had been fighting Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans at Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
...very large body, amounting perhaps to 200,000 Serbian peasant property owners, who are anti-German but strongly Serbian. . . . They are not as enthusiastic in regard to Communism as some of those in Croatia and Slovenia. Marshal Tito has largely sunk his Communistic aspect in his character as a Yugoslav patriotic leader. He has repeatedly proclaimed that he has no intention of reversing [Serbia's] property and social systems . . . but these facts are not accepted yet by the other side...
...could never have dismissed ministers who had been loyal to him, even to the point of fighting Partisans who fought for his country's liberation. His power stemmed from Winston Churchill and the British Government, determined to meet Russia's minimum demands for a remodeled, broadened Yugoslav Government. Britain's interest was intelligently selfish: a solution which satisfied Russia, embraced Tito and preserved the monarchy was the only one which could also preserve at least a vestige of British influence in that part of the Mediterranean world...