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...wish to nominate General Josip Brozovich, leader of the Partisan Yugoslavs whom the Spaniards in their revolution named "Tito...
...call the Partisans sincere fighters, worthy of support. He spent an afternoon with a Partisan brigade commander in a red-roofed, limestone house in a mountain town, going over maps, plans, requirements. The Partisans made full notes of all they told him-to forward to Drug (Comrade, pronounced "droog") Tito,† Marshal of the Partisans, at his Bosnian headquarters...
...Drug Tito, De Luce found, "has welded his guerrillas into a tightly disciplined and hotly idealistic force that shows more enthusiastic determination than any outfit I've seen since I met Major General Vassili Novikov's Caucasus Army. . . . It's a people's army, and presumably susceptible to most of the mistakes . . . ex-civilians usually make. But its spirit is amazing and exhilarating. It knows how to shoot straight...
...Tito is Josip Broz, or Brozovich, 53, Croatian ex-metal worker, Communist-trained leader of the People's Liberation Army, rival organization to General Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks. Berlin has offered 100,000 gold marks for either man's head...
...outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost the port of Spalato last week, but they are making the iron ring uncomfortably hot to hold...