World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE BALKANS: What Next for Tito?

Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Partisans checked several German offensives and, at some points, again went over to the offensive. Last week they recaptured Jajce, Tito's capital in Western Bosnia.

Teamwork. Close liaison with U.S., British and Russian missions has bolstered Tito's position. Best known of these liaison officers is 32-year-old Brigadier Fitzroy Hew Royle Maclean of the Cameron Highlanders, Conservative M.P., a Scot with a huge mustache and a quiet aptitude for danger, who has been at Tito's headquarters since last spring.

Cooperation with the Allies recently saved thousands of Partisans in the...

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