Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkan massif, Europe's two greatest powers were approaching a junction in the Balkans. Waiting at this mountainous meeting place of empires was a man who had newly risen into political history after a cryptic lifetime in the political underground: Yugoslavia's Marshal Josip Broz Tito. Tossed up suddenly in the slipstream of military and political movements, he was as little familiar to most of the western world as the lands he defended. But his two years of constant guerrilla warfare with the Germans had made one fact clear: in an area of decision...
...details of Tito's life history were obscure, but the results were plowed deep in Tito's gullied face. But before the plowing began, before he was even Tito, he was plain Josip Broz. His father was a Croat blacksmith in the village of Klanjec, near Zagreb. He had scarcely begun to learn his father's trade when the shot with which the Serbian nationalist, Govirlo Princip, killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo, shot young Josip Broz into the Austrian Army...
...Tito emerged from underground obscurity for a brief moment during Spain's Civil War. One fall day in 1936 a group of German International Brigaders drove a band of Moors through the village of Palacete near Madrid. In the village was a unit of Yugoslavs, nearly dead from exhaustion. For days they had been hold ing a gorge in rain, mud, under enemy fire. But when they were ordered to retire for rest, one protested bitterly. That one was Josip Broz. Soon afterward, he was among a hand-picked group of Communists withdrawn by the Red Army...
...where they are still paying his Johannesburg nightclub chits. King Peter fled first to Athens, then London. But a Yugoslav colonel, Draja Mihailovich, retired to the hills with a handful of soldiers and kept on fighting. He may or may not have heard about the hard-faced Croat named Tito, who, a month before the German armies invaded Russia, had re appeared in Zagreb and Belgrade...
...Tito paid a round of quiet visits to Yugoslav leaders, asked them to forget their political differences and unite against the Germans...