Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1943-12-31
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YUGOSLAVIA'S WAR

1t is no longer possible to doubt that the Partisan army and
government in Yugoslavia are taking their place as a major
element in the development of the great struggle. Marshal Joip
Broz, the Tito who organized this extraordinary national up
rising, is believed to dispose of some 100000 troops; he has
pinned down more German divisions in the wild Yugoslav noun
tain terrain than have the 9Th and 9Th Armies in Italy; Allied
supplies are reaching him in some volume, rushed directly
across the Adriatic to the footholds which he retains on the
Dalmatian coast; while his operations are carried out under
powerful air support from the Allied forces in Italy, with which
he is in direct coordination through Anglo-American military
missions and his own lasion officers.
This army is a formidable military fact; it is an impressive,
political fact as we'll. When, on the morrow of the Teheran con-
ference, it announced the formation of it's own government in
free Yugos1ava, the development seemed at best a delicate one
Marshal Broz himself is a Russiantrained Communist; his
army wears the Red Star on its Yugoslav uniforms, and the es
tablishment of a government was in direct opposition to King
Peters governmentin-exile at Cairo, which is recognized by the
Allies and had received British and American support. One ex-
perienced American observer felt that the more constituted a
serious challenge to the unity of the United Nations and the
craftsmanship of the big three"
But, if SO, the craftsmanship has met it so far without visi-
BILE strain. The British, applying the pragmatic principle that
they would help any one fighting the Germans, announced at
once that they were sending more aid to Broz than to the rival,
but dwindling, army under Mihailovitch, because the Partisans
were putting up much the bigger fight. Secretary Hull took a
similar attitude. The extent of Anglo-American aid to the Par
tisans was progressively revealed in the succeeding days, and
only after the British had officially revealed that they had a
military mission with Marshal Broz did Moscow announce it's
intention of sending a mission of it's own, in conformity with the
Sympathetic response which the Partsans had already awak-
ened in Britain and the United States.
By demanding now that the Allies withdraw recognition
from King Peters government and accord it to the Yugoslav
1Natonal COnnlItee, Marshal BrOZ may have embarraSSingly
forced the pace. But difficult as the internal problems of Yugo-
slaVla undoubtedly are, there is no evidence Of any serious divi-
sion because of them among the great Allies. Indeed, in the des-
perate, heroic rise of this peoples army out of the incredible
terror and destruction of the German invasion there is more than
a suggestion of how far all the old causes of division and clashes
of policy are being consumed in the actual fires of the struggle.
II the Partisan movement was pro-Russian in it's orientation, it
was never primarily Communist nor does it seem now to repre-
sent any one class or party or racial group. 1t has all the aspects
OF a fierce national uprising-an uprising from the ashes to
which all values have been reduced.
Such movements are seldom pleasant things. But they are
political and military facts which not only solve a great many
OLD issues by the force with which they impose themselves on
history, but also reveal the tremendous popular dynamics in the
devastated territories on which the Allies may call. The Allies.
helping all who will help beat the Germans, are wise not to en-
tangle themselves IN suppositious fears Or doubts which the &C
Qualities of the struggle may reduce to anachronisms.
New York Herald Tribune"