Page 2 — P. A, Features, November 18 The Libera (A speech by Marshall Tito after the libera- tion of Belgrade, made at the marchpast of units of the National Army of Liberation of Yugoslavia at Banjica.) ~ (OMRADES, men, Commanders, Commandants and Political Commissars of the National Army of Libera- tion: I express to you my gratitude for your gallant bear- ing in the liberation of Belgrade, capital city, dear to us all. The liberation of Belgrade which you achieved together with the heroic Red Army is of tremendous historic import- -ance, : T&t was in this martyred city that three and a. half years ago resistance was first offered to the so-called invin- cible German conqueror. _ On March 27, the people of Belgrade, as well as the people of other towns, by offering re- sistance, refused to bow to the conqueror who had so far en- slaved the whole of Europe. When German Hitlerite hordes, drunk with the victory. in Euro- pean countries treacherously attacked our‘ great ally, the So- viet Union, the peoples of Yu- goslavia knew that the hour of struggle had come. The people of Yugoslavia gained ‘fresh faith that the day of liberation would come. The youth of Belgrade show- ed unprecedented heroism, at- _ tacking German motor vehicles ‘in the streets of Belgrade. The youth of Sumadija were the first to rise, and very soon freed - almost the whole of western Serbia. > When German invaders and loca] traitors Neditch and Mi- hailovitch succeeded in driy- ing our glorious Sumadiamen Partisans out of Serbia, the youth of Sumadija, together with Montenegrin men, made for other parts of Yugoslavia te organize brotherhood and unity and to defeat the ac- cursed enemy who wanted to exterminate our people. Sons of Serbia, sons of Sum- adija, sons of Montenegro, went forth and lmked up with their brothers from Croatia and Slovenia and all other parts, and have heroically persevered Shoulder to shoulder in the struggle against the superior enemy for three and a ‘half years under most difficult con- ditions. Now the sons of Serbia have returned. thonch in ereat- ly reduced numbers, because the best sons of Serbia have lost their lives in the mountains of Montenegro, Dalmatia and Bosnia. A small but much stronger part has returned. It has returned together with,the sons of Croatia, Slovenia, Dal. matia and Voivodina to liberate and has liberated the city of Belgrade. - for _ ous airmen, Here the glorious Red Army the first time ‘linked up with the National Army of Lib- eration. Streets of Belgrade drenched with blood:.and. all the sons of «Yugoslavia are also drenched with the blood of our heroic Red Army. All this is of tremendeus importance. Now it is your - task and the task iof all fight- ing men especially of Serbia, to liberate, together with other peoples, the remaining patts of Yugoslavia. Now the sons of Belgrade and Sum- adija Croats and men from other regions will free our city of Zagreb. Your task is shoulder to shoulder with the Red Army to drive the eursed enemy from our Sac- red bleed drenched country. FRO you remember how one and a half vears ago the enemy unleashed all his forces against us to exterminate us? He will never do it. We shall win. Our allies, the Soviet Union, Britain/ and USA were given the op- portunity of assisting us. Bri- tain and USA began sending us arms, ammunition and all that we needed through their glori- Today the . great Soviet Union and its Red Army —the sons of Soviet Land— are also liberating this country side by side with you. : Here in Belgrade, in Yugo- slavia, the brotherhood of our great allies with our mar- tyred country was created. Our mission is not only to lib- erate our country but to- gether with our allies to drive the enemy into his lair and there make an end of the hydra which had wanted to enslave all mankind. e@ HERE in Belgrade the great- est traitor of -the Serhian people, Neditch, lived. He and the German inyaders made their plans here to exterminate the best sons of the Serbian peo- ple. Here just as in Zagreb plans were made to _ incite brother against brother and ex- terminate -our people — the Slavs of the South. But the people of Yugoslavia through its best sons, the men of the Josip Broz—Marshall Tito—leader of the Yugo- slav National Army of Liberation and minister of war in the Yugoslav Govt. Tito got part of his military training with the International Brigade in Spain. National Army of Liberation, €onfounded all these devilish plans. : Here in Belgrade, as in some other places, traitor Draza Mihailovitch made plans with the Chetniks and sharpened the weapons to complete the crime begun by the cursed traitors. of the Croat people, the Ustashi, in 1941 so that after the Germans are driven out, he could continue his pro- cess of inciting brother against brother. The mission which the sons of Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Slovenia have taken upon themselves is the brother- hood and unity of all peoples. The greatest victory which our army has so far achieved is just this unity and brotherhood. Bel- grade, the capital city of Yugo- slavia, has only now become truly the capital city of all Southern Slavs, the city which all the peoples of Yugoslavia will love, the city for which all the sons of Yugoslavia have shed their blood. Henceforth and on from Belgrade we must follow those ideals which have led us through grave days, the ideal of brotherhood and unity and that of a great and happy Yugoslavia. S' [t is your task not only to beat the cursed enemy but to keep watchful vigil over what we have won, over that for which about 200,000 of the best sons of our people, men of the National Army of Libera- tion and the Partisan detach- ments, have laid down their lives. About 1,000,000 destroyed, killed and gassed sons of Ser- bia, Croatia and other parts de- mand that you vigilantly pre- serve what we have gained so that this hell and this misfor- after defeat, “ tune should never-again be ex- perienced by our people. In our country and abroad there are still some people who speculate on the possibility of civil war. These plans will never materialize. We stretch out a hand of reconciliation to every honest citizen of the country who is prepared hence- ‘forth to work together with us in reconstruction and rehabili- tation of our unfortunate, dev- astated country. We are ready to do this. - The situation abroad de- mands it of us. The interests of our country demand of us that we rally all energies - Which are of value to our country, and all those who Sincerely wish, like the men of the National Army of Lib- eration in battle, te recon- struct our country and exert all our energies so that the wounds which this terrible war has inflicted on us can \ be healed at the earliest mo- ment. However, at the same time, we warn all who speculate, . either at home or abroad, they are badly mistaken if they think that the fruits for which ocean of blood was given We shall an will be lost to us. tion of Belgrade never give these fruits to an one. Our future generatio would curse us for it for we a bound to hand them what 1 have gained. = Gee a eo. ee E must preserve our ni federal democratic Yug in which every hone slavia citizen will have the full rig: to assert himself and whe each one will have work, an a portunity of learning a everything that is necessa to a cultured man. We ref to be pawns’ in other peopk hands. g By this struggle we ha earned the right to participe in this war and in the reec struction of a new and hepp) Europe, not only of Yugoslay on, equal terms with our alli I am convinced that these ; pirations of our people will accepted by our allies and tk they are already accepti them. L We wish to and mus shoulder to shoulder with o7 allies, destrey the greate: enemy of humanity, a: then with our allies build — better future for the people of Europe and a better an happier future for the peopl of Yugoslavia. _ Finally Comrades, I call up you to continue to perseyere this grave struggle which 1} not yet ended. ‘The day wi our country will be complet: liberated is near. Long live our Glorious N: tional Army of Liber: tion— eS Long live happy federal d: mocratic Yucoslavyia— Long live our great all: the Red Army— Long live the armies of ou > allies, Great Brita and the United State of America— won by blood on all tk battlefields of Europ | and. Africa for a bette and happier future— Death to Fascism— Freedom to the People! - FOR THEM THE WAR IS OVER. GRNGRE We — pISEASE AECESSE AES 2 Zee ae NOIPABL e é ee PAIN Long live the brotherhoc