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army and said to be a push-over for any good troops. The
 
Montenegrins are said to be the fiercest fighters, and the
 
Serbs the best disciplined and most effective troops.
 
     Arising out of these psychological characteristics are
 
certain fairly definite and wide-spread attitudes and types
 
of behavior. They all really fiercely and passionately want
 
to re-establish the independence and to strengthen the posi-
 
tion of whatever faction they are identified with. They all
 
have practically no intellectual sophistication, intellectual
 
tolerance, or much inclination to give and take with respect
 
to modifying what ideas or desires thsy possess. The Partisans, for instance, appear, to stand
 
for tolerance by professing respect for the rights of the individual, but it is a peculiar
 
kind of tolerance which, I think, means merely that even the
 
Partisan thinks that any individual who disagrees with him is
 
wrong but the Partisan, like Voltaire, will protect to the
 
death another man's political right to be wrong. All of this
 
means, I take it, that Jugoslavs will prove in the future, as
 
they have in the past, to be very intractable and hard to
 
influence with regard to their basic ideas and characteristics.
 
They are, however, very amenable in two other respects: They
 
are easily influcnced in opinions and attiitudes which they do
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not regard as basic and, since they are a people of quick
 
genuine gratitude, they have a ready responsive chord for either
 
friendly and sympathetic treatment or, if they do not suspect