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numerous combat operations. The present Partisan army is estimated at about 300,000. Tito told
me that he would have not the slightest difficulty in enrolling at least another 200,000 within the
next two months if the necessary equipment was forthcoming. This total figure of 500,000
certainly represents well over the usual high figure of 10% of the population of a totally mobilized
country,  and so  in very rough figures it might be guessed to represent a base population of
between three and four  million.
       Again, really accurate estimates are difficult because of geographical population shifts since
the war and because of other factors such as massacres, taking of prisoners, combat casualties,
etc., all of which have substantially affected the number of over-all population. Still the above
figures are cited because there are some interesting implications in pursuing further the question
of latent power in the roughly eleven to twelve million population who remain unaccounted for in
the above calculation and who are presumably a potential major factor some time in the future
either from a military or political standpoint or both.
       The country has been properly reported as being acutely short of practically every material
resource. They are wiithout adequate quantity or quality of food, clothing, housing, military
equipment, peace-time equipment such as agricultural implements and manufacturing and
processing facilities,