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unofficially of a number of individuals who could never under any
 
circumstances be acceptable to the Partisans or the people.The
 
first among these, of corpse, was Draza Mihailovich. Tito went
 
on to say that even then he was not sure that anything official
 
could be done by the Partisans about the King until after the
 
war, since it had been repeatedly affirmed, and as recently as
 
the second anti-Fascist congress at Jayce on November 28, 1943,
 
that the King could not return to the comutry mutil a post-War
 
people's plebiscite had enabled the people to express their de-
 
sires with respect to the King. Tito's political philosophy
 
seemed to be that he would compromise, for the sake of valuable
 
political support outside of Yugoslavia, with ,unimportant de-
 
tails of his political plans for his country, bat that he would
 
stand firm in support of his plan's main outline -- an outline
 
which is, in his mind, clear and unequivocal.
 
     B. WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE LIKELY POLITICAL 
          OUTCOME OF THIS SITUATION, IN SO FAR
          AS WE CAN FORECAST IT 
 
     The following prediction on the political outcome of affairs
 
in Jugoslavia carries with it some express limitations which the
 
reader must appreciate. The state of our information about
 
slavia is very incomplete. Many items which should be knovm in
 
.order to make confident predictions are as yet not in our pos-
 
session. Therefore, all that is intended here is to predict
 
certain likely results based on the limited information
 
 
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