Word: titos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bucharest, the "little Paris" of the Balkans. Worst of all, by choosing to fight for the Wallachian plain, Adolf Hitler had lost the better part of 30 divisions -which might otherwise have pulled back to defend Germany proper. Moreover the Russians, now heading for a junction with Marshal Tito's forces in Yugoslavia, threatened to cut off all the remaining Wehrmacht divisions-estimated at 15 to 20-in the southern Balkan peninsula...
...while newsmen shot questions at him, Prime Minister Winston Churchill sat down on an open barrel of political TNT and calmly lit a cigar. He had arrived in Italy four days before the Allied armada invaded southern France, three days after the sudden arrival of Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. Since then he had talked to Tito, to Italy's Premier Ivanoe Bonomi, Marshal Badoglio, Lieutenant of the Realm Prince Umberto, to Pope Pius XII. These talks might have concerned military plans. They almost certainly concerned the future plans of Britain and Russia in the Balkans, in Italy...
...Prime Minister! Mr. Prime Minister! What-did you and Marshal Tito talk about...
...Marshal Tito sent his three-year-old, battle-worn pistol to New York City's battling Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia-acknowledging the Mayor's message of admiration for the Partisans. The Mayor, a World War I veteran who did not succeed last year in getting a brigadier generalship, expressed his belligerent thanks: "Now that Tito has given me the gun, I hope my own government will give me the opportunity to use it ... before it is too late...
Incidentally, Tito Bizal is in the threes of plans for a tennis tournament between Companies 3 and 4. More on this will be announced later