Word: yugoslavic
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...part of Croatia-an island surrounded by the hostile forces of Germany, Italy and their satellites. For months at a time little is heard from Yugoslavia's private second front, and this arouses fear that resistance is ending. But last week reports from southeast Europe told of widened Yugoslav operations that spread even across the Croat frontier into Italy. South of Zagreb fighting was in progress for two communications centers, while in Serbia Mihailovich's forces had repulsed an onslaught by one German, one Bulgarian and two or three Italian divisions, far outnumbering the Yugoslav patriots...
Mihailovich and his hardy warriors have faced not only huge odds, but also staggering tool and supply problems. Most of their arms were Yugoslav army equipment hauled hastily into the mountains before the Germans advanced beyond Belgrade. Since then a little matériel has been dropped by parachute to Mihailovich, and some smuggled into Serbia from dissident elements in the Hungarian army...
Stories. Tales about Mihailovich, apocryphal or smuggled out of his mountains, abound in Yugoslav circles. It is said that he has done some of his own espionage, eating with German officers in a tavern where the host, devoted to him, was panicky with fright. Nazi officers are said to have driven up to a farmhouse where Mihailovich and friends were staying. When he had convinced the Nazis of his innocence, one of his friends remarked: "That was a close one." Mihailovich replied: "It was close for them, too." He pointed to a bush behind which a guerrilla machine-gun crew...
...Hungarian troops who had proved better at civilian terrorization* than at crushing Mihailovich's "invisible" mountaineers. Symbol of resistance. Mihailovich drew new recruits from all the Balkans. Possibly he had 200,000 men in all. But he was not invulnerable. At week's end, the exiled Yugoslav Government in London announced that his troops were hard pressed in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Hopeful of arms and help from somewhere, somehow, Mihailovich himself radioed that his position was "critical...
...Officially announced by the Yugoslav Government: 465,000 Serbs executed by occupying Axis forces...