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Before the delegates stood the man called Drug Tito. He heard them acclaim him Marshal of Yugoslavia, the first in history. Now he could drop his incognito, step forth officially as Josip Broz, Croatian metalworker, Communist labor leader and fighter for Loyalist Spain against Francisco Franco. The new Marshal's first act: substitution of the conventional army salute for the Partisans' greeting-the clenched fist...
...powers of a temporary Government for the freed areas of Yugoslavia. The variety of figures at the head of this Government reflected Yugoslavia's historic groupings, now partly fused by war: the Roman Catholic Croats; the hardy, heady, Orthodox Serbs; the minority Slovenes. The Partisans made Marshal Broz president of the Committee and chairman of a special Defense Committee. Next they chose a presidium and placed at its head an aging, upright Croat: Dr. Ivan Ribar, first president of Yugoslavia's Constitutional Assembly after World War I. To aid Democrat Ribar, the Committee named Serbian Communist Mosha Pijade...
...problem given Rommel was tough and thankless, but just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...
...Tito is Josip Broz, or Brozovich, 53, Croatian ex-metal worker, Communist-trained leader of the People's Liberation Army, rival organization to General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks. Berlin has offered 100,000 gold marks for either man's head...