YUGOSLAVIA: Tito's Triumph

For nearly two years Tito's men hunted their arch-enemy General Draja Mihailovich through the crags and ravines of the Bosnian mountains. Early in the winter they discovered his snowbound hideout, kept him on ice until the thaw, then pounced. Last week Tito's Government triumphantly announced that they had captured the bushy-bearded, bespectacled Chetnik leader sitting in a mountain cave, guarded by only eleven soldiers of his once-powerful army.

Early in the German occupation, Mihailovich was hailed as hero and leader of the Yugoslav resistance movement. But after Tito's Partisans rose up to battle the Germans, he turned from fighting the...

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