Word: chetniks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. General Draja Mihailovich, 53, leader of Chetnik resistance to Axis armies, former Minister of War in King Peter II's Government in Exile, and its chief representative in Yugoslavia up to March 1944; before a firing squad, after conviction by a Tito court of "treason and collaboration with the enemy...
...best interests of the nation to reveal this information. Silver-haired Anthony Eden, handsomer than his pictures make him out to be, rises and wants to know what the Government has done about the Mihailovitch trial in the light of the fact that the British government supported the Chetnik leader for two years. Heavy-set, tough-looking Ernest Bevin lurches to his feet and answers that the British government made certain information known to the Yugoslav government, but could not interfere further in a trial in a sovereign nation. And so the business goes on until the questions are exhausted...
Nothing that Mihailovich could say would wipe out abundant evidence that some of his Chetnik troops collaborated with the Germans. His tale was of how and why they came to do so, the tale of a victim and a failure, but not that of a traitor. He said...
...onetime hero of Yugoslav resistance was very tired. Prison-pale and peering myopically through his thick-lensed glasses, he tried wearily to turn aside the charges of his Partisan accusers. Seven hours a day, for three days, fortified by a breakfast of rum and tea, the bushy-bearded Chetnik answered their hammering questions and returned to his cell for a dinner of ham & cabbage, topped off by tall schooners of beer. But neither rum nor beer nor the efforts of two of Yugoslavia's best defense lawyers could lift his pessimism. "I wish you wouldn't torture...
...their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army...