Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implications were bigger than the mere loss to the Communists of a valuable commander. Markos, it appeared, had run afoul of Moscow, and of the Moscow-liners in his own councils, by maintaining close contacts with Yugoslavia after Tito's break with the Cominform. Like Tito, Markos had fought his own battle for power, and having achieved it, he liked to run things his own way. As a soldier, he believed that his army needed the crossing points on the Yugoslav border, and the training and supply bases behind it. For a while, he made this view prevail...
...speakers was Li Lisan, Mao's old rival, and now presumed to be Red boss of Manchuria. Said Li ominously: "Some of our comrades in Asia have been in error . . . We must avoid at all costs the spread of nationalistic Communism in Asia. We cannot tolerate a Tito in Asia...
There is a chance that Mao may turn Tito, especially if Russia should use Manchurian industry for her own, rather than for China's recovery. But so far, Mao has slavishly squeezed himself through every needle eye of Moscow policy...
Elsewhere, Stalin was little more than holding his own. His Communists suffered electoral defeats in France and Italy; Yugoslavia's strong-willed Tito brashly challenged his absolute authority. The Western Allies moved forward toward setting up an independent Western Germany, and then stayed in Berlin as one gauge of their determination to get on with...
...never broke down. Pearson got many a beat like the General George Patton* slapping story merely by printing what other newsmen knew, but had kept to themselves from feelings of patriotism or a foggy sense of newspaper ethics. He also made many a wild forecast -among them, that Marshal Tito would be assassinated in 1947 and, along with almost every pundit, that Truman would be beaten in 1948. He has not yet lived down his 1946 "disclosure" that U.S. troops had sired 14,000 Japanese bastards-though the G.I.s had been in Japan only six months. Such bobbles did little...