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...arch of crossed swords, to take her place beside pale, 38-year-old Franz Joseph Otto Robert Marie Anthony Charles Maximilian Henry Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Louis Cajetanus Pius Ignatius, Emperor (by theoretical title) of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia and Jerusalem, Margrave of Moravia, Grand Voivode of Serbia, Duke of Lorraine and Auschwitz, Lord of Trieste, etc., etc. On the pretender's shoulders lay the jewel-studded collar of the Golden Fleece, symbol of Habsburg knighthood. Inside the cushion before him was scattered a handful of Austrian earth -all he had left of the land from which...
...smartly uniformed dictator had campaigned with speech and dance (see cut). With him as he cast his own vote in Belgrade was Petar Stambolic, President of Serbia. Tito voted first, dipping his fist into both boxes, then holding up his open palm. But when Stambolic put his hand in the "no" box, he let go the rubber ballot. There was momentary horror, then laughter as Stambolic sputtered that he had made a mistake. "Petar," said Tito, "you are finished." But he said it with a grin, and waited with a grin while Stambolic, with official permission, fished out his vote...
...like his pig, can only be driven so far and so fast." An authoritative guess is that several thousand recalcitrant private farmers were imprisoned in 1949. In some villages as many as 50 farmers were arrested in a single night. I saw 200 peasants shuffling along a road in Serbia, picks and shovels in their hands. I was told they were voluntary workers. But at either end of the procession were soldiers with Tommy guns...
Last week Tito pumped up some counterpressure by having the Yugoslav army stage the greatest maneuvers it had ever held. Tanks, with such slogans as "We Are Ready to Defend Our Country!" and "Tito Is Ours," rolled past the well-fed dictator in the Sumadija, a hilly area of Serbia. Belgrade papers printed an officially inspired opinion that the army had shown "exceptional readiness...
...General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, 56, German tank expert who earned the title of "Butcher of Guernica" in the Spanish Civil War, was Rommel's onetime second-in-command of the Afrika Korps and achieved high rank on the Yugoslavs' war-criminal list for his massacres in Serbia; of a heart attack; in Söcking, Germany...