| | each Government pledges itself to cooperate with the Governments signatory hereto."<ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/paw/274.html Declaration by United Nations, January 1, 1942], U.S. Department of State Bulletin, vol. VI, p. 3.</ref> Within Yugoslavia, Colonel [[Draja Mikhailovitch]], a Serb, organized a resistance army on behalf of the Yugoslavian government known in the press as the Chetniks.<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 46] pdf.</ref> | | each Government pledges itself to cooperate with the Governments signatory hereto."<ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/paw/274.html Declaration by United Nations, January 1, 1942], U.S. Department of State Bulletin, vol. VI, p. 3.</ref> Within Yugoslavia, Colonel [[Draja Mikhailovitch]], a Serb, organized a resistance army on behalf of the Yugoslavian government known in the press as the Chetniks.<ref>''While You Slept : Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It'', John T. Flynn, New York : The Devin - Adair Company, 1951, [http://www.mises.org/books/whileyouslept.pdf pg. 46] pdf.</ref> |
| − | [[Josef Broz Tito]], an agent of the [[Comintern]], led the [[Yugoslav Partisans]] in the interests of the Comintern. In the United States, [[Louis Adamic]] had access to the First Lady, [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. Adamic was invited to dinner at the [[White House]] and pressed upon U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] for support of the [[subversion]] of Colonel Mikhailovitch in favor of Tito. The U.S. [[Office of War Information]] (OWI) began a disinformation campaign against Mikhailovitch which was repeated in [[mainstream media]] sources with a call for "unity." | + | [[Josef Broz Tito]], an agent of the [[Comintern]], led the [[Yugoslav Partisans]] in the interests of the Comintern. In the United States, [[Louis Adamic]] had access to the First Lady, [[Eleanor Roosevelt]]. Adamic was invited to the [[White House]] and pressed upon U.S. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] support for the [[subversion]] of Colonel Mikhailovitch in favor of Tito. The U.S. [[Office of War Information]] (OWI) began a disinformation campaign against Mikhailovitch which was repeated in [[mainstream media]] sources, with a call for "unity" with the partisans. |
| | The Yugoslav government - in - exile in London continued to support Mikhailovitch. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] in 1942 paid tribute to Mikhailovitch and his men. But at the [[Teheran conference]], as part of the policy of [[appeasing]] Stalin, Roosevelt and [[Winston Churchill]] abandoned Mikhailovitch completely and yielded to Soviet’s choice of Tito. | | The Yugoslav government - in - exile in London continued to support Mikhailovitch. President [[Franklin Roosevelt]] in 1942 paid tribute to Mikhailovitch and his men. But at the [[Teheran conference]], as part of the policy of [[appeasing]] Stalin, Roosevelt and [[Winston Churchill]] abandoned Mikhailovitch completely and yielded to Soviet’s choice of Tito. |