Word: yugoslavic
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...without reason had the German High Command decided to engage in a major operation against the Yugoslav Partisans at a time when every Axis soldier was needed in Russia. The Partisans had proved themselves a menace to Hitler's New Order. In a recent advance their armies, commanded by stalwart, black-haired Kosta Nagy, captured the town of Karlovac, 30 miles from the Croatian capital of Zagreb, and approached Banja Luka, Bosnia's second largest town, throwing the fear of the Lord into the hearts of the puppet government...
Caught in the whirlpool, General Draja Mihailovich is operating in general to the southeast of the area held by the Partisans. He has been receiving arms from the Italians. According to the Yugoslav Government in Exile, Mihailovich got arms from the Italians ostensibly to fight the Partisans, but actually put them away for future anti-Axis operations...
Negotiation. In the interest of unity in Yugoslavia and the prevention of a bloody civil war, negotiations opened recently between Moscow and the Yugoslav Government in Exile. But a Soviet note delivered to the emigre government was not published by the Government in Exile. And the exile Government's lengthy replies to Soviet proposals probably took the form of arguments that Mihailovich was the actual leader of all anti-Axis forces in Yugoslavia, accusations that the Russians support the Partisans for ulterior motives. Pressed by journalists, the emigre officials admitted they had no idea where Mihailovich was, that...
...words were those of Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower. But they were not released by Eisenhower's G.H.Q. in North Africa. They were not released by the U.S. War Department. They were released in London by the Yugoslav Government in Exile. Eleven days after New Year's, the Yugoslavs announced that Eisenhower had sent a New Year's greeting to General Draja Mihailovich...
General Eisenhower's words accorded with the view that most Americans held of General Mihailovich. But the message also placed General Eisenhower squarely on the painful, baffling Yugoslav political scene-a scene where General Mihailovich's Serb Nationalists are still at odds with Partisan Serbs, Croats, Slovenes (TIME, Dec. 14, Jan. 11). It was by no means certain that the U.S. Government knew enough about the complexities of the scene to justify a clean-cut commitment...