Word: josip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minister Lie was preceded by two other callers, Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito and Premier Ivan Subasich. After a round of conferences they hopped back to Belgrade to open Yugoslavia's first Assembly of National Liberation...
Italy's empire seemed about to fall apart. Marshal Josip Broz Tito was doggedly pushing Yugoslavia's claim to Trieste, Fiume, Istria. (In the U.S. last week appeared Yugoslavia and Italy, a pamphlet quoting Marshal Tito, his Foreign Commissioner Dr. Josip Smodlaka and others, urging the Yugoslav claims.) In Athens, the Greeks demanded, and with British help would likely get, the Dodecanese Islands...
Mission from Moscow. Just a decade after he marched away from the smithy, Josip Broz returned to Croatia, but not to blacksmithing. His job was to organize a metal-trades union. He had left Austria. He returned to the crazy-quilt kingdom of the South Slavs whose Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins and Macedonians would presently be held together in uneasy union by a tight little dictatorship headed by King Alexander II. Under the dictatorship only the Serbs supported the dynasty. Only tractable parties were legal. Trade unions were outlawed. As a Croat, a Communist and a trade-union organizer, Josip...
...through the village of Palacete near Madrid. In the village was a unit of Yugoslavs, nearly dead from exhaustion. For days they had been hold ing a gorge in rain, mud, under enemy fire. But when they were ordered to retire for rest, one protested bitterly. That one was Josip Broz. Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army's Military Intelligence to join some anti-Franco guerrilleros behind Franco's lines. He was next heard of in France, working in the section of the underground whose function...
...Government, called the National Committee of Liberation, was scarcely more Communist than its program. Out of 17 Cabinet officers, five were Communists. Among the nonCommunists: Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka, friend of Czechoslovakia's late, great Thomas Masaryk, onetime Yugoslav Minister to the Vatican; the Rev. Vlado Zecevic, Minister of the Interior (and hence in charge of the police). Minister Zecevic was an Orthodox priest who commanded a detachment of Chetniks until late 1941, when he switched from Mihailovich to Tito...