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Before the French Communist Executive Committee Papa Duclos pitched into Comrade Togliatti for arguing that Trieste must remain "Italian" rather than become Yugoslav, as Comrade Tito insists. Meanwhile, Les Cahiers published an article on Trieste by Stephane Mitrovitch, Yugoslav veteran of the old Comintern. Charged Mitrovitch: "Our Italian comrades . . . [are guilty of] political and theoretical deviations . . . erroneous conceptions . . . [that reinforce] reactionary forces in Italy and the world...
...Born. To Tito Schipa (pronounced Skeepa), 57, Italian-born ex-Metropolitan Opera tenor, and Teresa Borgna Schipa, 22, his second wife: his third child, her first, a son; in Lisbon. Name: Tito Luis Joao Michelangelo. Weight...
Specifically, Russia wanted sole trusteeship over Tripolitania, while the U.S. wanted four-power trusteeship. Russia wanted Trieste for Tito's Yugoslavia, while the U.S. and Britain wanted to leave it to Italy (with the port itself under international control). Russia wanted recognition of Bulgaria's regime, which the U.S. and Britain found unrepresentative...
...June, 1945, after most of his army had faded away, the hunted General proclaimed to his remaining troops: "Do not despair. . . . There is bound to be a war between the western democracies and Russia." He said that "Serbians would rather perish than submit to Tito's command or to Communism." Last week he unwillingly submitted, would surely perish...
Early in the German occupation, Mihailovich was hailed as hero and leader of the Yugoslav resistance movement. But after Tito's Partisans rose up to battle the Germans, he turned from fighting the invader to fighting his rivals...