Word: mihailovich
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...signed the U.S. master Lend-Lease agreement in 1942, Ninchich was a sacrifice in a Cabinet reshuffle designed to "achieve unity among various groups inside the country and to strengthen the Government." His place was taken by another oldster, Premier Slobodan Yovanovich, who announced that General Draja Mihailovich would continue (from inside embattled Yugoslavia) as Minister...
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...
...confusion of defeat after the Nazis seized their country, Yugoslav soldiers made their way to their ancient refuge, the hills. There Mihailovich, the ranking officer, assumed command of guerrilla fighting. His valor and the skill of his soldiers captured the world's headlines. To much of the outside world, Mihailovich became a symbol of freedom.*But to many Yugoslav patriots, intellectuals and peasants, he became a symbol of the discredited Belgrade government clique and the Kara George dynasty which first gave Yugoslavia dictatorial King Alexander, then, after his assassination, a Fascist-minded set of regents while King Peter...
Grey Falcons. So today in Yugoslavia Mihailovich leads, at best, only half of the guerrillas in a delaying action designed to maintain resistance until an Allied invasion comes to the rescue. The Partisans,† waiting for no invasion and traditionally sympathetic to Russia, are doing the major fighting. In his anguish, Mihailovich, as Chiang Kai-shek did in China in 1927, has labeled the Partisans criminals and ruffians. The exile Government has described them in the same vein, often credited their victories erroneously to Mihailovich...
...fame reached the Argentine hinterland, where last week bands of gypsies, having elected Mihailovich honorary chieftain, were raiding cattle ranches and scrupulously setting aside their loot in an aid-to-Mihailovich fund. †"Partisans" was originally an American word for guerrilla bands in the Colonial wars between the British and French. Later it was applied to such groups as "The Green Mountain Boys" in the Revolution and to Cantrell's Guerrillas in the Civil War. Partisans were active in the Napoleonic wars and the Russian Revolution. The name now designates Communist-led and other leftist guerrillas in Europe...