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That was a safe enough guess; fighting had spread already. From Yugoslavia Marshal Tito reported heavy Partisan attacks on German communication lines through the Vardar and Ibar Valleys, main routes to Greece. Albanian and Greek Partisans also reported fresh activity against German forces. From restless, suffering France came details of the tough resistance put up by the Maquis of the Haute-Savoie region...
...Germans have known for some time that this was Tito's headquarters. A few weeks ago 15 German Stukas dive-bombed the lofty crag in full daylight with no more effect than fleabites on a bull's skin...
Last week Allied correspondents got their first look at Marshal Tito [Josip Broz and his Partisan stronghold in Yugoslavia.* On a bleak mountain airfield, ten miles behind the front, an Allied plane one starry night had deposited TIME Correspondent Stoyan Pribichevich, Reuters' John Talbot and two photographers. Churchill's son, Major Randolph Churchill, met them, started them in a captured German Volkswagen, toward Marshal Tito's hidden headquarters. This is Correspondent Pribichevich's story...
Dinner with the Marshal. As I write this dispatch, sitting on the grass with my typewriter on my knees, I can gaze at the deep perpendicular cleft cut in the huge rock where I had dinner with Marshal Tito last night...
...Graveyard. One casualty of the revolt was U.S. popularity. While the fighting was still going on, Colonel Tito Calvo, a rebel leader, drove up to the U.S. Embassy in a tank. He asked for Ambassador Walter Thurston, pleaded the ancient right of asylum. Thurston correctly told him that the U.S. recognized no such right. After the Colonel was seized and shot, Salvadorians blamed the U.S. for his death...