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YUGOSLAV POLITICS RECOGNITION OF TITO (9 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 7. The statement of the Royal Yugoslav Government further widens the gap between the supporters of King Peter and General Milchailovitch, on the one hand, and General Tito on the other, says the New York Times Cairo correspondent. One of the war’s greatest mysteries was solved when it was learned what nas long been suspected that General Tito is the Croatian peasant worker, Josip Broz. His election as president of the Yugoslav National Committee of Liberation complicates the position of the United Nations and the allies of Yugoslavia. All the allies, including the “Big Three,’’ have diplomatic relations with King Peter’s exiled Government in Cairo. The question now is whether the Allies should formally recognise General Tito, as he demands.
[The Royal Yugoslav Government, after a meeting in Cairo, repudiated the new temporary Government which is reported to have been formed within Yugoslavia. The Royal Government, in a statement, said: "The new movement of terrorist violence in no way represents Yugoslav’s democratic conceptions. The new movement resulted from enemy propaganda, to the success of which unfortunately the Allies have contributed a great deal.]
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21272, 8 December 1943, Page 3
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