Word: yugoslavic
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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...
Suddenly Moscow's Pravda published an open letter to Tito from Yugoslav Ambassador Stanoye Simich, severing his connection with Peter's Government and proclaiming his allegiance to Tito. Long ready to make the switch, Simich now explained...
...Tito is "the only representative of the Yugoslav nation...
...apparent afterthought, Diplomat Simich observed that no U.S. official had spoken out clearly for Tito, that the Yugoslav Ambassador to the U.S., Constantin Fotich, was a cousin of quisling Milan Nedich, yet persona gratissima in Washington. Fotich, said Simich, controls all Yugoslav Cabinets through his control of Yugoslav gold...
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...