Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Italy's empire seemed about to fall apart. Marshal Josip Broz Tito was doggedly pushing Yugoslavia's claim to Trieste, Fiume, Istria. (In the U.S. last week appeared Yugoslavia and Italy, a pamphlet quoting Marshal Tito, his Foreign Commissioner Dr. Josip Smodlaka and others, urging the Yugoslav claims.) In Athens, the Greeks demanded, and with British help would likely get, the Dodecanese Islands...
Belgrade and Nish. Other Soviet divisions were busy in Yugoslavia. A quick march westward from Rumania took them to the outskirts of Belgrade. Joining up with Marshal Tito's Partisans, they began their attack on the capital. The Belgrade attack appeared to be part of the Hungary operation, and the swing northward to Germany's side door. Another drive toward Nish, an important position on the Athens-Belgrade railroad, seemed designed to cut off the last Germans in Yugoslavia and Greece. Malinovsky was liquidating the Germans' Balkan venture, with yeoman help from Tito's Partisans...
From somewhere in Yugoslavia last week the Committee of National Liberation broadcast a blast at the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration-the Yugoslavs had refused to accept relief because UNRRA insisted upon distributing food and supplies in Marshal Tito's territory through its own organization...
...typical misunderstanding. Tito's men, like nearly everybody else, were confused by existing relief arrangements. The Yugoslavs were protesting about preliminary relief proposals of the inter-Allied military authorities at Bari, had blamed them on UNRRA. But UNRRA had made no deal with Tito and could not act in Yugoslavia without Yugoslavia's invitation. It had neither personnel nor organization to undertake more than general supervision of supplies...
...meeting finally broke up. Next morning, most of the Russian correspondents who were there flew to the Yugoslav front to witness the junction of the Russians with Tito. The Anglo-American correspondents, as usual, read the Russian papers...