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UNCORRECTED GALLEY PROOF
of National Liberation would wield unrestricted legislative powers
until the proposed constitutent assembly had finished its work. The
King feels that these provisions would transfer the power in Yugo-
slavia to a single political group, Marshal Tito's National Liberation
Front.
At this writing we do not know whether negotiations on the agree-
ment will continue (the King has indicated his approval of the agree-
ment's basic proposals) or whether Marshal Tito will refuse to con-
tinue the conversations and request recognition of his organization
as the de jure government of Yugoslavia.
PRINCIPAL YUGOSLAV PROBLEMS
Tito-Subasic Negotiations. Conversations are now in progress in
London between the British and Royal Yugoslav Governments con-
cerning ratification of agreements concluded during recent months
between Yugoslav Prime Minister Dr. Subasic and Marshal Tito, the
leader of the National Liberation Front (Partisan movement) in
Yugoslavia, looking toward the establishment of a united, federal
government in Yugoslavia.¹ Mr. Churchill is now pressing King
1 See ante, p. -
Peter for ratification of the agreements, which would set up (1) a
Royal Regency designed to exercise royal prerogatives pending a
decision as to the future of the Monarchy, (2) a legislative body
consisting of delegates to the Partisan Anti-Fascist Council, which
would also enact a law providing for later elections to a constituent
assembly, and (3) an executive group or cabinet composed almost
exclusively of Partisan representatives, which would also be charged
with establishing a new judicial system.
We have been asked by the British Government to state our position
with reference to the agreements mentioned, in connection with the
London conversations. We have instructed Mr. Patterson not to
enter into a discussion of the proposed agreements, because of the
vagueness of the terminology and the technicalities of Yugoslav law
involved, and have indicated that (1) if the King accepts the agree-
ments, the question of our "recognition" of the fusion Government
would not arise, and (2) should the King reject the agreements and
Marshal Tito request recognition of his own organization as the
de jure government, we would wish to re-examine the situation within
Yugoslavia.
Our instructions to Mr. Patterson have been communicated to
King Peter and Prime Minister Subasic, as well as the British Govern-
ment, which has also been furnished a re-statement of our Yugoslav
policy, namely: (1) our desire that the Yugoslav people work out
their own forms of government, without foreign influence or imposition
of the rule of any one national or political group, (2) our willingness
to extend military aid to all resistance forces, without political dis-
tinction, (3) our conviction that desire for reform is general in Yugo-
slavia and not the monopoly of any one group, (4) our hope that
genuine representatives of the people will be assembled to speak for
them, and (5) our uncertainty as to the part played in the Yugoslav
problem by British-Soviet understandings with respect to their
respective interests in Southeastern Europe.
American Representation. We recently instructed Mr. Kirk in his
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