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...most pressing concerns is the administration of Italy, now transformed into a greyish mess of political pasta e faggioli. Another lies across the Adriatic in Yugoslavia, where two native armies hold the field, the Partisans of General Tito fighting like exacerbated dervishes, the Chetniks of General Mihailovich refusing to fight. Greek conservative elements rally around Britain's friend, King George; Partisan leaders, closer to the people, are profanely antimonarchist...
Pointedly referring to those who still oppose Tito and cry up Serb General Mihailovich, General Simovich said: "The slogans of the defense of the threatened Serbdom and of the struggle against Communism are only masks to conceal the personal ambitions of individuals . . . the interests of profiteers and grafters whose aims are opposite to the sentiments of the great part of the Serbs and to the common interests of the Serbs and of Yugoslavia...
...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...
While Tito's conglomerate Croats, Slovenes and Serbs fought on, whatever forces remained to the lone-wolf Serb, General Mihailovich, were inactive somewhere in the interior. In Cairo, the coterie around exiled King Peter suggested that the Allies would yet thank Mihailovich for conserving his forces, holding his punch until invasion comes...
There could no longer be a question that Mihailovich and his Chetniks had pretty well dropped out of the fighting; there was much questioning about Mihailovich's attitude toward the Allies. But the eclipse of Mihailovich did not mean the eclipse of the Serbs: they form a sizable fraction of the Partisan armies, and in its proposed framework for a federation of seven Yugoslav states (Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sanjak, Montenegro, Macedonia) the Partisan National Liberation Council has given the Serbs a predominant part...