313 За резултатите од преговорите британската воена мисија Bethesda не известила, бидејќи по формирањето на југословенската влада во март 1945 година и по пристигнувањето на првиот британски амбасадор во Југославија во средината на 1945 година во Македонија бил отворен конзулат314 со што престанала работата на британските воени мисии и информациите пристигнувале по дипломатска пошта.
„Британските воени мисии во Македонија (1942-1945)“
од Тодор Чепреганов
(2001)
Како резултат на тоа во Скопје во средината на 1945 година бил отворен конзулат, со што престанала работата на британските воени мисии во Македонија. SUMMARY By the beginning of the armed war in Macedonia, October 1941 intil the summer 1943, the British diplomacy was not preoccupied by the Macedonian issue, due to a simple reason that in its calculations regarding the postwar settlement, it had to stay in the frameworks of the Kingdom Yugoslavia. With the beginning of the armed war, the Macednian people ordered in the line weth the nations who had resisted to the fascist expansionism becoming a part of the anti-fascist coalition. Still yet in the mid of 1942 the British Division of SOE in Cairo demonstrated an interest for Macedonia due to the fact that it was interested in disabling the communications along the Morava-Vardar valley, through which some military materials were handiling to the port of Thessalonica, and thereto to the frontiers of the Near and Middle East. In line with the instructions, to help all movements of the resistance in the occupied territories, the SOE representatives immediately started organizing a mission which would go to Macedonia and would probe the terrain for delivering weapons and military equipment to the froups who were fighting. Concerning the policy of the Ministry of ForeignAffairs in Great Britain the frst trials for delivering military missions on the territory of Macedonia were connected to the Chetnik movement. However, such missions in the frst half of 1943 did not manage to fulfill the assigned task due to the fact that the Chetnik movement od the territory of Macedonia was rather poor and consisted of elements oriented to Serbia and without any kind of support by the Macedonian population. The strategic changes both od the African frontier and the Mediterranean and the major role on the Balkans as the only European battlefield had a great influence upon the Britain to change their attitude in relation with the National Liberation Movement (NLM) in Macedonia. Special impact upon the change of such a decision had the imformation received by the members of the British military missions in Albania an Greece for the actions, contacts and collaboration among the bidder and powerful units of the National Liberation Army (NLA) and Partisans Detachments (PD) of Macedonia with Greek and Albanian partisans. The surrender of Italy represented a crucial moment in the change of the British relation towards Macedonia. With the arrival of the British military missions at the Supreme Staff (SS) of NLW and PD of Yugoslavia the same were asking from the SS od NLA as well as the PD of Yugoslavia sending off military missions to all General Sraffs (GS) on the territory of Yugoslavia. However, the endeavor of Fitzroy MacLean to send off a mission on the territory of Macedonia, the superme commander of the NLA and PD of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito refused them. But when MacLean told that one of their mission descended in Albanie intending to go to the GS of NLA and PD of Macedonia, Tito in the latter addressed to Svetozar Vukmanovic - Tempo dated October 9, 1944 had pointed out that they had to receive "this member of the English mission" asking grom him a financial support in weapons and military material. The arrival of the first British military missions on the territory of Macedonia coincided with the wide spread development of the NLF as well as passing through a high degree in the organization of the military units and creation of regular military units. As a result of the decision at the Central Committee (CC) of the Comminist Party of Macedonia (CPM) made on August 2, 1943 connected with forming the battalions and brigades, on August 18, 1943 the first Macedonian battalion called "Mirce Acev" was established. Within the month of November the First Macedonian-Kosovo Striking brigade was formed and in December the Second Macedonian Brigade, as well. In the beginning of Ostober (from 1 to 5) on the territory of Macedonia the first British military missions arrived. First of all the mission Monkeywrench led by George Quine had arrived and then od October 5, 1943 the mission Milligatawny came at Crvena Voda, the place where the General Staff of NLA and PD of Macedonia were situated. The last mission had, through the territory of Macedonia accompanied by the Macedonian partisans, to leave to Bulgaria where it shold be connected with the Macedonian partisans, to leave to Bulgaria where it should be connected with the Bulgarian movement of the resistance. On the territory of Macedonia, till the end of the war SOE has sent some missions such as: Abbeville, Bethesda, Brasenose, Conserve, Monkeywrench, Spike and Perseverance assigned into the Macedonian units. By its own emeryday reports they contributed the centers of COE in Cairo and London to follow very carefully both the military and political events in Macedonia, directing the astivities of the missions members to provide necessary military and political information as they could act in due time at the commander of Supreme Staff (SS) of NLA and PD of Yugoslavija Josip Broz Tito, having in mind the protection of eheir own interests on the Balkans. After the liberation of Macedonia, the British military missions transferred into Skopje. A part of them were evacuated, and the rest part remained further informing about the situation in Macedonia, especially for the ideoligical motives by the Macedonian political and military leadership with their purpose to unite the three parts of Macedonia. All this was lasting until the formation of the British ambassador in Democratic Federal (DF) Yugoslavia in the middle od 1945. As a result of that, a consulate was open in Skopje in the middle of 1945, by which the operations of the British military missions in Macedonia stopped.
„Британските воени мисии во Македонија (1942-1945)“
од Тодор Чепреганов
(2001)