YUGOSLAVS’ UNITY

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 196, 17 May 1944, Page 7

YUGOSLAVS’ UNITY

Charges Against Former Leaders (Received May 16,10.30 p.m.) • NEW YORK, May 16. ' Marshal Tito, in c special article for tile American magazine “Free World,” describes the 10 days in which Germans defeated Yugoslavia as the most shameful period in the nation’s history because ot corruption and treachery among leading officials, says the United Press of America. Marshal Tito attacks Generl Mikhailovitch as a traitor, emphasizing the failure to co-operate after two conferences. At the second conference in 1941 Marshal Tito proposed a ten-point programme, bpt General Mikhailovitch did not accept. the most important points though he speedily agreed to take a share of the arms and ammunition provided by the guerrillas who captured the Uziee arsenal, he says. “The day after the negotiations we immediately handed over to General Mikhailovitch 500 new rifles and 25,000 cartridges,” says Marshal Tito. “Three days later the Chetniks attacked the Partisans with the same rifles and ammunition. ■

“As the result of a superhuman struggle, lasting unity such as did not exist before the war has now been established between the Yugoslav peoples. The Yugoslav National Liberation Movement has repudiated all agreements concluded by King Peter’s Government, leaving the system of administration to be determined after the war by the free will of the people. For more than two years the world was. deceived about the real state of affairs in Yugoslavia. Now the traitor Mikhailovitch is nailed to the pillory of history. We are thankful to the Allies for realizing, though belatedly, who is doing the fighting in Yugoslavia and to whom aid must be given.’’