Pat for the Partisans

British recognition came to the Partisans last week. Speaking unobtrusively from Cairo, the British Government officially admitted the existence of military liaison with ragged, intense, mystery-man Tito, chief of staff for Ivan Ribar's People's Army of Liberation. British liaison with General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks, standing enemies of the Partisans, has long been known. The Partisans charge that Mihailovich finagles with the Axis (TIME, Dec. 14, et seq.).

As though satisfied that no further conniving would occur, the British added that "the forces united under Mihailovich have now denounced the Quisling Chetniks, who long claimed to form part of the Mihailovich movement and under this cover accepted military help from the Axis in order to fight against the Partisans. Mihailovich forces are now playing a gallant and honorable part in the joint fight."

To the German military command in Yugoslavia, Mihailovich and Tito were of equal value: 100,000 gold marks.

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