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...Yugoslav Government-in-Exile was hastily formed in the summer of 1941 by men who symbolized most of the political errors of the past two decades. Last week the sexagenarian exiles gave themselves an overdue shake-up and ousted bent, deaf, secretive, forgetful Foreign Minister Momchilo Ninchich...
Brought into the open, with the aid of recent documented evidence of conditions within Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 14), was the inability of the Cabinet to secure two important things: 1) a Serbo-Croat agreement about the future (i.e., Greater Serbia or Federated Yugoslavia); 2) an agreement between Mihailovich and Yugoslav Partisans to stop fighting each other and unite in fighting the Axis...
Quite different were the military triumphs of Yugoslavia's General Draja Mihailovich, who capitalized on a conquered nation's unconquerable urge for freedom to fight when fighting seemed impossible. But before the year was out thousands of his countrymen, probably distrusting the Yugoslav Government...
...allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain-based planes. The arc of the Alps could be bypassed by land troops without danger of an Italian flank attack along the historic Balkan route to Germany's back door. Along part of that route Yugoslav partisans last week had a new fighting front...
...peoples of Europe to Nazi invaders.* By last week it was clear that the Partisans had eclipsed Mihailovich. Axis military communiques referred consistently to the resistance of the Partisans, rarely mentioned Mihailovich. As might be expected, Axis propaganda described the Partisans as cutthroats, Communists and bandits. In London Yugoslav officials connected with the Government in exile used the same epithets...