affairs. Tito is in touch with the Partisian movements in Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, and he told me
that he considers it neither impossible nor undesirable that these countries, and even Rumania,
should unite with Jugoslavia after the war in one strong federative whole, with a central federated
government. 
     
     Tito expressed himself to the writer on the subject of the King and the Royal Jugoslav
Government-In_Exile. He said that he was being pressed, though Brigadier MacLean, by the
Prime Minister to accept the King and to recognize thereby the King's continuing right to the
throne of Jugoslavia. Tito said that he understood the reasons for the British request and the
obligations, real or fancied, which the British Government believed it owed to the King and was
now attempting to fulfill. He said that personally he had nothing important against the King as an
individual. He said , however, that the British requeat placed him in an extraordinarily
embarrassing posirtion. The people of Jugoslavia, said Tito, and the National Committee of
Liberation know that the kIng left his country at a critical time, that he established a costly
Government-in -Exile with the people's money, and that he then appointed to this Government
men who were collaborationists and trators, and continued them in office after the Partians had
furnished him with documentary evidence of their treason. Tito said that for any raproachment to
be even remotely possible between the Partisians and the King, the King would have to divest his
Government both officially and