Word: josip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Allied correspondents got their first look at Marshal Tito [Josip Broz and his Partisan stronghold in Yugoslavia.* On a bleak mountain airfield, ten miles behind the front, an Allied plane one starry night had deposited TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich, Reuters' John Talbot and two photographers. Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill, met them, started them in a captured German Volkswagen, toward Marshal Tito's hidden headquarters. This is Correspondent Pribichevich's story...
Square-jawed Kent Cooper, executive director of the Associated Press, got madder & madder. For nearly two weeks the A.P. had been waiting for a sizable beat from Bari, Italy: Correspondent Joseph Morton's story of a question & answer interview-by-letter with Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip Broz (Tito). But the story was squashed under the political censorship of 224-lb. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson's Mediterranean command...
...route to London was another Yugoslav: Tito's Foreign Minister, Josip Smodlaka, whom Churchill had summoned to the same conference. Three weeks ago the British leader had called Tito an "outstanding leader," said, regretfully, that Peter's War Minister, Mihailovich, had trafficked with the enemy. Recently, too, Captain Randolph Churchill, the Prime Minister's son, had parachuted into Tito's mountain headquarters...
...sent out a feeler. It reported Allied landings in force on the Yugoslav shore, where the Second German Tank Army keeps spotty guard. The report was wrong only in its exaggeration of the force: parties of officers and specialists had been landed to help the Partisans of Marshal Tito (Josip Broz...
...York Times, with a front-page lead and two pages inside, recognized the Partisans of Yugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942, et seq.). In Cairo, where Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger filed the epic dispatch, once-hostile British censors passed a flood of encomiums to the Partisans, to their commander, Marshal Josip Broz ("Tito"), and to a party of Partisan officers who had come to Egypt. One booster even spread the report that Marshal Broz's favorite books are War & Peace and Pickwick Papers...