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Gateways Closing? As this week began, five columns spearheaded by tanks moved against Tito's forces south and east of Benja Luka. Tito appeared to have suffered heavy losses. He called on Yugoslavs serving under Serbian Puppet Milan Nedich, Croatian Quisling Ante Pavelich, or Chetnik leaders (probably meaning General Draja Mihailovich) to join his forces. With seeming desperation he warned: "Those collaborators who fail to heed the final invitation will be treated as enemies when the day of settlement comes...
...more than a year the ragged army of Dr. Ivan Ribar's Partisan Veche (Council) has done all the effective fighting against the Axis in Yugoslavia. General Draja Mihailovich, famed Chetnik 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...
...November 1941, General Mihailovich's heterogeneous band suffered a serious defeat near Valjevo at the hands of German mechanized columns. The Chetnik Army splintered. Whole units under Mihailovich's former subordinates, Gjayitch and Drenovich, joined the Italians. Others went back to their farms. Mihailovich himself retired to relative inactivity somewhere in Montenegro, avoiding action except for a sharp attack last June against a Partisan army fighting the Italians in southern Montenegro. Montenegrin Partisans charge that in certain instances Mihailovich collaborated with the Italians...
Draja Mihailovich's fiery army of 145-150,000 former Yugoslav regulars, Serb Chetnik guerrillas, Croats, Slovenes, Jews, Bulgarian and Austrian deserters, has often been called a guerrilla force. It usually fights in small, separated groups like guerrillas. But General Mihailovich has a radio sending station. His forces have countless portable radio receiving sets of the former Yugoslav Army. His war is not impromptu guerrilla warfare. It is an organized, continuous raiding operation-mobile, swift, deceptive-which in years to come will undoubtedly rank as an epic...
...Chetnik guerrillas and Serbian regulars, united under Serbian General Draja Mikhailovitch, were reported standing off as many as seven German divisions in the mountains south and west of Belgrade...