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ceiving supplies by boat at the coast and taking them inland.
 
They have furthcr depleted their resources within the country,
 
and their situation with respect to the health and consequent
 
physical reserve of troops and civilians appears to be appre-
 
ciably worse.
 
N. LOGISTICS OF PAST, PRESENTAND POSSIBLE FUTURE 
      AID FROM UNITED NATIONS TO PARTISIANS
 
     As long as the Partisans continue without means of bringing
 
snpplies in from the sea, they will be forced to a continaunce
 
of their present type of warfare. Under even an expanded pro--
 
gram of supply from the air, they can hope to do little more
 
than keep alive their movement through a steady trickle of the
 
most critical light-weight sapplies, of which they stand in
 
need. Since the present air supply program is not enough even
 
to begin to meet .their present total needs, it clearly will
 
never be the means of increasing appreciably either their total
 
numbers, or the kinds of eqaipment they now have, let alone changing their kind of army through 
 
the introduction of heavier equipment. When Tito and Iovanovic told me that they would
 
like to raise their st'rength from 300,000 to 500,000 within
 
the next two months and hoped to do it by air supply, I asked them whether they had figured out 
 
the absolute minimum poundage necessary to turn a civilian into their kind of a soldier and
 
whether they had multiplied that by 200,000, which is the