Word: yugoslavic
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...dropped out of the fighting; there was much questioning about Mihailovich's attitude toward the Allies. But the eclipse of Mihailovich did not mean the eclipse of the Serbs: they form a sizable fraction of the Partisan armies, and in its proposed framework for a federation of seven Yugoslav states (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sanjak, Montenegro, Macedonia) the Partisan National Liberation Council has given the Serbs a predominant part...
Balkans. The Germans retook most of the Dalmatian coast from Yugoslav guerrillas. The Germans also regained Leros (and claimed Samos) from luckless, ill-supported British soldiers who attacked Hitler's Aegean outworks last month, never had a chance to keep them...
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Commander in Chief in the Middle East, had heard enough. For a year the rival claims of General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks and Drug (Comrade) Tito's Partisans had blurred the picture of resistance in Yugoslavia. For a year the Yugoslav Government in Exile had sought to bury the fact that its War Minister, Serb Mihailovich, was doing little or nothing, that all or most of the pressure on the Nazis was coming from Tito's guerrillas, who call themselves the Army of Liberation (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942). Each band has accused...
...salute [the] notable successes of the Yugoslav forces of liberation. . . . [But] I have learned that in some areas . . . certain men are dishonoring the Chetniks and helping the Germans in their vain attempts to subdue the forces of liberation. These men are shamefully betraying the cause of their country and adding to this shame by claiming that their actions have British approval. This declaration is entirely false...
...Nazi-controlled newspaper in Yugoslavia referred to "Allied officers who are now at the headquarters of Yugoslav patriot forces...