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     I was told that he has been actively identified with the
 
communist movement for the past 30 years and, as a result of
 
these activities, in and out of prison with monotonous regularity.
 
He is tall, Slavic looking, and is certainly quite a bit more
 
impressive in appearance than Tito. He speaks excellent French
 
and, I believe, a number of other languages. I got to know him
 
less well than any important Partisan with whom I had any con-
 
tact. This was partly owing to his manner, which is consider-
 
ably more reserved than most of the other Partisans, and partly
 
owing to the fact that I made a mental note to spend more time
 
with him and then never got around to it.
 
     He is said to have great organizing ability. When General
 
Ilic, through what was said to be unusual incompetence, got the
 
Eighth army corps headquarters into a terrible snarl, Zujovic was the man who was sent down 
 
there to straighten it out. Ilic was removed and Zujovic was reported to have had the whole
 
organization back in smooth running order in six weeks and to
 
have left a colonel in charge there who has kept it running well
 
ever since.
 
3.  General Arso Iovanovic 
 
     General Iovanovic is Partisan Chief of Staff. Tito says that Arso may be politically inept 
 
but he is a good tactician. The British are less flattering im their estimate of him. In
 
the considerable number of hours that I spent with Arso, I saw no evidence of either of these
qualities (that is, above average
 
 
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