easy, ia describing this situation, to become lost ia a maze of
 
subtleties and to end up with the conclusion that no conclusion is possible.
 
     Still, certain simple elements do seem to stand out as facts.
 
In the welter of confusion there does seem to be a group, the Par-
 
tisans, who are numerically greater today than any other single
 
group in Jugoslavia. They do seem to.control more square miles
 
of territory at the moment than any other Jugoslav group. They
 
do seem to be more actively resisting the enemy, and with more
 
effect than any other Yugoslav groap. They do seem to have been
 
more articulate in announcing and implementing a program of true
 
representative government than any other Jugoslav group, and fi-
 
nally, they do seem to be more firmly knit together and controlled
 
by a single, freely chosen andfreely replaceable, leader than any
 
other Yugoslav group.
 
     Tito told me that he believes the fatare events of his coun-
 
try are foregone conclusions. He believes that his country will
 
emerge victorious from the war, with the enemy expelled and the
 
country one total independent and self-governing political entity.
 
He believes, secondly, that the political constitution of the
 
country after the war will be a people's government with the
 
rights of the individual protected by law. The freely expressed
 
will of the people is to be the sole determinant in all important
 
national issues, the Partisan party presamably continuing in
.
 
control as the means of expressing the people's will in national