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...Night. Of all the foreign Communist commuters who ever descended from the clouds on Moscow airport, by far the most important was a short (5 ft. 8 in.), stocky, blue-eyed man known to the world as Tito...
Last week, he sent an impenitent note to the U.S. referring to the five unarmed U.S. fliers his planes had shot down and killed over Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2). Tito claimed that U.S. air forces had violated Yugoslav sovereignty 32 times in one week. The State Department replied with a stiff, 3,000-word note which added up to a simple: "Not so." Most Americans began to realize that Tito, long billed as the paladin of Yugoslav democracy, was no democrat, and that he bore watching. What they did not know about him would fill several police archives, and perhaps...
Rumors about Tito's origin were fantastic, but scarcely more so than the mystery enveloping him. According to various accounts...
...Russian general named S. Lebedev who assumed the part after the original Tito had been liquidated in a Russian purge...
According to the most coherent (or least sensational) report, Tito's mystery began in the village of Kmrovec, Klanjec county, on the border of Slovenia and Croatia. Klanjec is situated in a region famed chiefly for plump wheat, fat geese, burgeoning plum trees (essential to the manufacture of rakija, Tito's favorite drink), and a sprinkling of minor middle-class watering places (where, presumably, Tito got his first glimpse of the class enemy...