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Yugoslavia. UNRRA took over the relief job on April 15, under an agreement with the Tito government. Work done so far: negligible. Controller: Tito...
History's Man. Yugoslavs had just finished a day of dancing and singing in Belgrade's squares to celebrate their new pact with Russia. The news from America smothered every jollity. Marshal Tito's Government decreed a four-day closing of theaters, cinemas, concerts. It banned music and dancing in restaurants. Hour after hour people called at the U.S. Embassy to voice their sorrow: "We have lost our best friend...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito's forces captured historic Sarajevo. Tito, who was in Moscow at the time, said it would be "only a matter of days" before all Yugoslavia was cleared of Germans...
...which they lost 300 tanks in three days, against Soviet Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin's forces between Lake Balaton and the Danube, in Hungary. From Lake Balaton to the Moravian Gate (northeastern entrance to mountain-girt Bohemia) they had 30 German and 20 Hungarian divisions. Fighting Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia they had ten more. The only sane military explanation for this spreading-out of force was a desperate Nazi desire to keep the Allies away from those approaches to the bastion...
Field Marshal Sir Harold Alexander, Allied commander in the Mediterranean, conferred with Marshals Tito and Tol-bukhin last month. That seemed to signal a concerted Allied drive in Italy, Yugoslavia and Hungary, possibly aiming at a common front from the head of the Adriatic to the Danube. Last week, forestalling a possible German sortie through the Moravian Gate against the flank of their northern armies, the Russians were attacking the gate themselves...