THE YUGOSLAV PROBLEM
Sta,—There is one point which I should like to refer to in connexion with the article, "Mihailovich and Tito," which appeared in your issue of February 25th. The writer, Mr. Robert Powell, mentions the fact that nowadays no reports from General Mihailovich are published in the British Press. Yet there is valuable material which the British public should be given, in the interests of truth and understanding of the happenings in Yugoslavia today. In this connexion, may I mention one of the last re- ports, dated February 8th, which describes the great National Congress which took place on January 26th, 27th and 28th? It was attended by 273 delegates, some of whom had to travel for twenty-five days to reach the secret hiding-place in the mountains. Among the aims accepted by this congress were the following:
" Yugoslavia is to be organised as a federal State with a constitutional, parliamentary and hereditary monarchy, with the dynasty of Karageorge and King Peter II as its sovereign.
" The Congress considers that the stability of a future Yugoslavia is possible only by the formation of a democratically organised Serb federal unit which would include the whole Serb nation and its territory. The same applies to the Croat and Slovene peoples."
General Mihailovich made the following statement in the course of a speech to the Congress: " My Army and I consider that only a free and democratically national assembly has the right to deal with the affairs of our State . . . I most emphatically repudiate the malicious rumours concerning a collective revenge upon anybody."
The Congress also expressed its regret that owing to lack of accurate information, the activities of Tito and the Partisans were given undue importance since this could only lead to bitter disappointment later, when the true facts became known.
All I plead for, dear Sir, is that the British public shall be given the facts, so that it can judge for itself. What it is now told 'is one-sided and an insult to its intelligence as the most politically-conscious and justest public in the world.—I am, Sir, yours thankfully, A YUGOSLAV.
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