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.

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_ 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.

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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

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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

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