Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note's exact contents were still unknown last week. But it meant just one thing to wishful, boyish King Peter: the U.S. agreed with him that the provisional government of Yugoslavia's Communist Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz needed a lot of improvement. Thus emboldened, King Peter withdrew his previous approval of the government, announced that he had accepted the unoffered "resignation" of its No. 1 figure in London, Premier Ivan Subasich. In short, King Peter tried to force Subasich...
Hell popped. Winston Churchill thundered at King Peter, his onetime protege. Ambassador Patterson visited the King day after day, trying to explain that the U.S. had not expected and now deplored his breaking with Tito just before the second Roosevelt-Stalin-Churchill meeting. Peter swallowed his pride and consulted his displeased parent, Queen Mother Marie. At Egham House in Surrey, Mr. Subasich had an emotional session with the King and the ladies of the royal family: Queen Mother Marie; Peter's young wife, pregnant Queen Alexandra; and her mother, Greek Princess Aspasia...
There was immense admiration, too, for the skillful powering of diplomacy with military might which had enabled the Russians within five months to knock out of the war four Axis satellites (Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland and Hungary) and, with the help of Marshal Tito's Partisans, to liberate most of Yugoslavia and force the German withdrawal from Greece...
Britain had staked out a formal claim to interest in the affairs of Yugoslavia. She still recognized King Peter. But the Yugoslavs seemed about ready to jettison their King. In Belgrade the Government was dominated by Marshal Tito, a Communist...
There was the stubborn fact of Yugoslavia. If reports were true, when a small British liberating force landed in Dalmatia last November, Marshal Tito disarmed them and threatened them with internment. Then London ordered them to withdraw. Now people close to Tito were talking about a Yugoslav Federation which would include Albania, parts of Greece and Bulgaria...