Word: josip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marshal Josip Broz Tito, the heretic who got away with it, this was a moment to savor. Splendidly adorned-braided cap, sky-blue military blouse with ribbons, red-striped slacks-he drove out to Belgrade's Zemun Airport and waited. Seven years before, Russia's masters had kicked Yugoslavia out of the Cominform, reviled Tito as "traitor," "fascist," "spy and murderer," urged his people to revolt against him, harassed his borders, shut off his country's trade. Dictator Tito, an old hand at intrigue himself, survived it all. Now, unrepentant and unintimidated, master in his own land...
...Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 63, Communist President of Yugoslavia...
...outcome really hinged on the decision of one man-Josip Broz Tito...
Nobody can say that Marshal Josip Broz, known these days as Tito, President and dictator of Yugoslavia, does not hold elections. Last week Tito held elections. The country's 10 million-odd voters swarmed to 25,000 polling places and elected 282 parliamentary deputies. For 265 of the parliamentary posts there was only one candidate. Tito himself was unopposed...
...select a President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were there any other nominations? asked Speaker Josip Vidmar. The Parliament roared with laughter...