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capacity as Political Adviser to the Mediterranean Commander, to
send two members of his staff to Belgrade to look after American
interests informally. Thus far Partisan authorities have refused to
allow these representatives to enter Yugoslavia, but Mr. Kirk is
pressing the matter very firmly.
Relief Negotiations. Negotiations for the conclusion of a relief
agreement to operate in Yugoslavia during the military period
preceding the assumption by UNRRA of relief responsibilities were
interrupted last November by the departure of the principal Partisan
delegate to seek instructions, particularly with reference to the
question of Allied observers to oversee the distribution of supplies.
We have insisted on observers with a view to insuring the impartial
distribution of supplies and to avoid allowing such supplies to be used
as a weapon of political coercion.
The Partisan delegate did not return to Bari, and while the nego-
tiations have been resumed at Belgrade a Partisan propaganda cam-
paign has been emphasizing that Allied relief was being withheld from
starving Yugoslavs by the Anglo-American insistence on sending
observers into Yugoslavia in derogation of Yugoslav sovereignty, and
that the Soviet Union, on the other hand, was making generous ship-
ments of wheat available for Yugoslav consumption, to which the
only obstacle was the Allied failure to furnish necessary shipping for
its transportation from Black Sea ports. Supplementing this propa-
ganda campaign was one initiated by certain organizations in the
United States calling for the release of Yugoslav ships from the
Allied shipping pool for the transportation of relief goods to Yugo-
slavia.
The CCAC has agreed to transport American relief goods to
Yugoslavia, but has declined to assign specific ships for this purpose.
2 The assignment of ships was a function of the Combined (American and
British) Shipping Adjustment Board and the shipping authorities of the two
Governments, not of the Combined Civil Affairs Committee.
The negotiations for a relief agreement have recently been resumed,
with good prospects for success.
Mihailovich. General Mihailovich, the leader of the Nationalist
movement which opposes the Partisans, was forced to retreat from
Serbia into Bosnia following the entry of Soviet forces into Serbia
late in September 1944. He has made repeated appeals for supplies
to enable him to continue the fight against the Germans under Allied
direction, all of which have been ignored by the Supreme Allied Com-
mander, Mediterranean Theatre. Supporters of Mihailovich report
that his army and the refugees who accompanied him are suffering
great privations in the Bosnian mountains, and are under constant
attack by Germans and Partisans.
It should be noted that reports of American observers tend to refute
the charges against Mihailovich of collaboration with the Germans,
and indicate that the Partisans, with the help of Allied military sup-
plies, are fighting the nationalists and otherwise establishing a repres-
sive political hegemony in Yugoslavia. The Allied observers attached
to the Partisans do not have the freedom of movement which would
enable them to evaluate the real situation.
Partisan Excesses. Official and unofficial reports received from
Yugoslavia point to the probability that large-scale executions and
confiscations of property of persons opposed to the Partisan movement
are taking place. We have already received two inquiries from Con-
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