Word: josip
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Born. To Lieut. Zharko Broz, 22, son of Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz of Yugoslavia and his Russian-born wife: a son. Name: withheld by the censorship on Tito's family life. Weight...
...charges of helping terrorists and of forcing conversion of Serbs to Catholicism, the Holy See last week excommunicated "all those who have participated physically or morally" in this grave offense against the "liberty and dignity [of one of] the Church's sacred pastors." This clearly included Marshal (Josip Broz) Tito and most of his Government...
...born, according to conflicting versions, on March 6, May 7 or May 25, 1892, the son of Franjo Broz, a Croat blacksmith, and his wife Maria. He was christened Josip at the Kmrovec Catholic church, and entered the parish school. According to some authorities, Tito was "a bad, violent schoolboy," who soon left his father's house, became a locksmith's apprentice...
...Convert. Various tatters in the blanket of secrecy reveal Josip Broz as an Austro-Hungarian Army private during World War I. Destiny, in the anonymous guise of a War Office bureaucrat, sent him to the eastern front. There, he was captured by (or deserted to) the Russians, was packed off to Siberia. In 1917, Tito entered the Red Army, fought in the Russian civil war, was chosen for special training as a Communist foreign agent, became indelibly indoctrinated with the century's great new faith. During his novitiate, he found time to marry a Russian girl who bore...
...Then, after Hitler's fateful invasion of Russia in 1941, Josip Broz suddenly emerged from the fog as Tito the Partisan, who fiercely fought Germans (as well as non-Communist Yugoslavs who followed the late General Draja Mihailovich).* His new revolutionary nom de guerre is variously explained as derived from: 1) the initials of Tajna Internacionalna Terroristicka Organizacija (Secret International Terrorist Organization); 2) St. Titus, a convert from paganism who, it is believed, also did missionary work in the Balkans; 3) a legendary 13th-Century Slav warrior called Tito, who is reported to have killed more Mongols than anyone...