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Last week, he sent an impenitent note to the U.S. referring to the five unarmed U.S. fliers his planes had shot down and killed over Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2). Tito claimed that U.S. air forces had violated Yugoslav sovereignty 32 times in one week. The State Department replied with a stiff, 3,000-word note which added up to a simple: "Not so." Most Americans began to realize that Tito, long billed as the paladin of Yugoslav democracy, was no democrat, and that he bore watching. What they did not know about him would fill several police archives, and perhaps...
...proud father returned to his homeland which by then had become Yugoslavia. His chief baggage was Communist fanaticism. He promptly put it to use as a union organizer among the metal workers of Zagreb and Kraljevica. In 1929, Tito was arrested by the Yugoslav Royal Police and remained in jail until 1934. At this point, the biographical barometer registers ceiling zero...
...International's roving undercover political bureau; 3) in Vienna as a university student (Tito still speaks German with Vienna's sloppy accent); 4) in Switzerland; 5) in Moscow and Leningrad taking courses in partisan warfare at revolutionary finishing schools; 6) in Moscow, as Comintern representative of the Yugoslav Communists...
...nonCommunists) includes many a Partisan who can barely read & write. Actually, the Government is well-stocked with Communist theoreticians. Tito's chief adviser is meticulous, humorless Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 36, a former schoolmaster with a Goebbels limp and a Molotov mustache, who spent six years in Yugoslav prisons for writing Communist pamphlets. Later, he fled to Russia where he headed Odessa's Revolutionary School for the Balkans. Currently he writes most of Tito's prolific legislation and heads the Yugoslav delegation at the Paris Peace Conference...
...powerful undertow. In Greece, voters balloted nominally for or against return of the monarchy in the person of King George II, long an exile in Britain. Actually, they were voting for or against the spread of Communism in Greece, against the threat of Russian domination in the guise of Yugoslav, Albanian and Bulgarian menace in the north...