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...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...
...years Li Lisan was filed away, like Josip Broz (now Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito) and Boleslaw Rutkowski (now Poland's President Bierut), in Moscow's human archives. But last week Li was back in the inner circles of the Yenan Government. Some thought they recognized his dynamic hand already in reports that Yenan was considering superseding the present loose union of local Communist governments with a strong central regime...
...world tormented almost to indifference by the international welter of civil strife, rioting, pillage, expropriation, the collapse of social and political tradition and the failure of the nations' leaders to achieve peace found one fact indisputable last week: in Yugoslavia Marshal Josip Broz Tito's war planes had shot down two unarmed U.S. transports (one in flames) and killed four American citizens...
Conservative, Communist-hating Draja Mihailovich had been the one representative of the Serbian ruling class strong enough to fight back against Yugoslavia's Nazi invader. But when Hitler turned his guns against Soviet Russia, Josip Broz, the Communist toolmaker who called himself "Tito," appeared on the scene. To Mihailovich, the exiled government's official military leader, Tito may have seemed no more than a rabble-rouser leading a pack of bandits. Mihailovich clearly felt it his duty to unify Yugoslav resistance under his leadership and to hold his forces in readiness for the day when the Allies struck...
...touring U.S. Congressmen stopped off at Belgrade for a chat with chesty Marshal Josip Broz-Tito, Yugoslavia's Kremlin-backed strong man. Was it true, asked Republicans Karl Mundt and Frances Bolton, that Dr. Ivan Subasich had quit his job? Why yes, said the Marshal, adding that he hoped he could talk the handsome Foreign Minister out of leaving...