7. • IN 1943, AFTER TITO’S HEADQUARTERS SURVIVED BRUISING AXIS OPERATIONS FROM
JANUARY TO JUNE (PARTICULARLY IN THE BATTLES OF NERETVA AND SUTJESKA), THE
WESTERN ALLIES RECOGNIZED HIM AS THE LEADER OF THE YUGOSLAV RESISTANCE AND
OBLIGED THE LONDON GOVERNMENT-IN-EXILE TO COME TO TERMS WITH HIM. IN JUNE 1944
THE ROYAL PREMIER, IVAN ŠUBAŠIĆ, MET TITO ON THE ISLAND OF VIS AND AGREED TO
COORDINATE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE EXILED GOVERNMENT WITH TITO. THE SOVIET ARMY,
AIDED BY TITO’S PARTISANS, LIBERATED SERBIA IN OCTOBER 1944, THEREBY SEALING THE
FATE OF THE YUGOSLAV DYNASTY, WHICH HAD THE STRONGEST FOLLOWING IN THIS
LARGEST OF THE YUGOSLAV LANDS.