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by Fitzroy MacLean


  1 Now Vice-Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

  1 Now Minister of the Interior.

  1 Now Chief of Staff of the Yugoslav Army.

  2 Long live Tito. Death to Fascism. Liberty to the People.

  1 The following figures for supplies during 1944 give some idea of the scale on which the Western Allies were now helping the Partisans:— over 100,000 rifles; over 50,000 light machine guns and sub-machine guns; 1380 mortars; 324,000 mortar bombs; 636,000 grenades; over 97,500,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition; 700 wireless sets; 175,000 suits of battle-dress; 260,000 pairs of boots.

  1 General Žujović was disgraced in 1948 in somewhat obscure circumstances. According to the Russians the reason for his disgrace was his loyalty to them.

 

 

 


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