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...London last week Premier Slobodan Yovanovich resigned his post as head of Yugoslavia's Government in Exile. A six-month-old crisis besetting Yugoslavia's political remnants abroad was out in the open. Over two years of evasions, intergovernmental machinations and international blunders were paying off. The Yugoslav Government in Exile now faced the choice between firm action and oblivion. The choice would have to be made soon, for Britain, strongest supporter of the exiled Government, was fed up with watching the fumbling which has prejudiced the Yugoslav Government in the eyes of the world and brought...
...leader, and the exiled government of adolescent King Peter in London have held that their forces should be saved for the moment of Allied invasion. The Partisans often accused Mihailovich of collaborating with the Axis. Last week it became known that the British, who have been trying to coordinate Yugoslav resistance since last autumn, were making another attempt to persuade Mihailovich to get down to the business of fighting the Axis...
There was no hint as to Mihailovich's reaction to the British suggestions. But there was plenty of evidence that Yugoslav patriots were fighting the invader with fresh fury. In Montenegro and Bosnia they stopped a new German offensive. Railroad bridges on the Belgrade-Sofia and Belgrade-Salonika lines were destroyed, delaying many important trains. Rome radio reported the capture and execution by guerrillas of Colonel Giuseppe Lispeti, Italian commander in southern Montenegro. The Germans, who two months earlier had announced that the Partisans were wiped out, now reported new "mopping up" operations...
...German news picture testified to the respect in which the Nazis hold the guerrillas: it showed eight Germans guarding one captured Yugoslav...
...made this journalistic conservatism almost untenable. War was too real, too exciting.* By spring 1941, when Ray Brock wrote from Belgrade with glorious enthusiasm of the Yugoslav decision to fight the Nazis, the lid was off. Now Times correspondents are allowed always to write much as they please...