you are trying to bribe them, for material assistance. I am
 
sure that most of them hope desperately for a better country
 
after the war and that by this they mean something more than
 
just individual material advantage for a given man or group of
 
men. It seemed to me that very few of them had any idea of
 
how this better state would be brought about; and when they
 
give their political loyalty to any particular group, it is
 
more likely to be for reasons of religion or bonds of kinship
 
than because the group has a reasonable policy which seems to
 
promise a better organized country. Only among the Partisans
 
did I find any evidence of a post-war thinking but even with
 
them I felt that the loyalty they commanded was more of an
 
emotional than an intellectual manifestation. I did not get
 
any feeling about the Jugoslavs that they were mentanlly dull
 
or incapable of education. I did get the feeling that they
 
were people of considerable character if, by character, you
 
mean an apparent consistent ability and willingness to live up
 
to principles. From that standpoint, they seemed to me to be on
 
the whole a moral people whose promise, was to be respected.
 
Those I talked to seemed trustworthy. It must be evident from
 
everything I have said that I believe that their will to resist
 
will not be soon subdued, if ever