Somewhere, Somehow

Frightened by the stages of revolt gathering strength throughout all the occupied countries of Europe, Germany last week discarded its theme of "Pax Germanica" for a policy of "implacable terror." In Yugoslavia, against General Draja Mihailovich's isolated and loosely organized ''army of freedom," the Nazis struck with a fury born of frustration and fear.

Into the Bosnian mountains marched a new Nazi punitive expedition, augmenting 500,000 German, Italian and Hungarian troops who had proved better at civilian terrorization* than at crushing Mihailovich's "invisible" mountaineers. Symbol of resistance. Mihailovich drew new recruits from all the Balkans. Possibly he had 200,000 men in all. But he was not invulnerable. At week's end, the exiled Yugoslav Government in London announced that his troops were hard pressed in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. Hopeful of arms and help from somewhere, somehow, Mihailovich himself radioed that his position was "critical."

* Officially announced by the Yugoslav Government: 465,000 Serbs executed by occupying Axis forces.

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