860H.01/9–1344: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Winant) to the Secretary of State
[Received September 13—10:36 p.m.]
7533. Press today carries excerpts from broadcast which King Peter of Yugoslavia made last night from London, calling on all Serbs, Croats and Slovenes to unite and join National Liberation Army under leadership of Marshal Tito. He stated: “My Government, under its Prime Minister, Dr. Ivan Subasitch, has with my full knowledge and approval concluded substantial and advantageous agreements with our national army which is unanimously recognized, supported and assisted by Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States. The day of our liberation is at last dawning. No one who has been or may still be looking to the enemy for support to the detriment of the interests of his own people and their future and who remains deaf to this appeal shall escape the brand of traitor before his people and before history. By this message to you I strongly condemn that misuse of the name of the King and the authority of the Crown by which an attempt has been made to justify collaboration with the enemy, and to provoke discord among our fighting people in the very gravest days of their history thus solely profiting the enemy.” King Peter urged that a wholehearted welcome be given “to the victorious Allied armies which may come to assist you in the complete achievement of the liberation of our country”.