- 26- 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 |