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By the end of 1943, a general picture had emerged, which forced on the British a reconsideration of their attitude to supporting which, if any, resistance elements, and, under what conditions such elements should be organised.
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Part I
Lord Stanhope, Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (Oxford, 1938), The World’s Classics, p. 69.
V. Mastny, ‘The Benes-Stalin-Molotov conversations in December 1943’ (Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas Band 20 Heft 3 September 1972).
J. Lettrich, History of Modern Slovakia (New York, 1955) p. 213.
Vaclav Kral, ‘The West and the Slovak National Rising’(Ceskoslovensky Historicky Casopis No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 1975) pp. 51–72. (English translation in the author’s possession.) Kral’s reference to Golian’s interrogation is given as the National Archives Washington T175–537 presumably from RSHA files.
See Roy Maclaren, Canadians Behind the Enemy Lines (1939–45) (Vancouver, 1981) pp. 166–8. His name was Andrew Durovecz. None of his SOE contacts in Budapest materialised. He was picked up by the Germans, imprisoned by the Hungarians, picked up by the Russians and eventually evacuated to Bari.
See C. Pyromaglou, La Résistance Grècque et les Alliés, (European Resistance Movements 1939–45) (London, 1964), p. 302.
R. Clogg, ‘Pearls before Swine’, a conference paper included in British Policy towards Wartime Resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece (ed. Auty and Clogg) (London, 1975) p. 171.
Part II
See Sweet Escott, Baker Street Irregular (London, 1965) pp. 203–4.
Also J. G. Beevor, SOE Recollections 1940–45 (London, 1981) passim. A sub-force 139 seems to have been set up in Bari later in 1944 — to deal with supplies to Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovak affairs under Colonel Threlfall. (See ‘Czechoslovakia: the Slovak Rising’ in Part I above).
Cruickshank, Deception in World War II (Oxford, 1979), Ch. 10.
See E. L. Woodward, British Foreign Policy in the Second World War (London, 1962) Vol. III, p. 141 for details.
See the admirable account in John Erickson, The Road to Berlin (London, 1983) p. 397.
Much has been written about these two tragic missions. For example, Stowers Johnson, Agents Extraordinary (London, 1975).
See also Nissan Oren, Bulgarian Communism (New York, 1971) pp. 208ff.
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Deakin, W. (1988). Resistance in Occupied Central and Southeastern Europe. In: Deakin, W., Barker, E., Chadwick, J. (eds) British Political and Military Strategy in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in 1944. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19379-0_6
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