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Marshal Tito was presented with an address of welcome and an ivory screen at a civic reception given in his honour by the Delhi Municipal Committee.
Speaking at the topic reception Marshal Tito said that his visit to this country was inspired by a sincere desire to strengthen the friendship and understanding between the two countries and to contribute to the maintenance of world peace.
Marshal Tito in the course of a broadcast from the Delhi Station of All India Radio observed that he wished the people of India to achieve much success in their efforts to develop their country and in their noble endeavours for world peace.
mod.nic.in /samachar/jan01-04/html/ch14.htm   (758 words)

  
 Tito, Josip Broz. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Tito was supported from the first by the USSR, but in 1944 he also received the full support of Britain and the United States.
Although Yugoslavia was closely associated with the USSR and was a leading member of the Cominform, Tito often pursued independent policies and did not hesitate to curtail the activities of Soviet agents.
Tito denied the charges and refused to submit to the Cominform, from which Yugoslavia was then expelled.
www.bartleby.com /65/ti/Tito-Jos.html   (844 words)

  
 Marshal Tito Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The Yugoslav statesman Marshal Tito (born 1892) became president of Yugoslavia in 1953.
Tito was born on May 25, 1892, the seventh of 15 children of a peasant family of Kumrovec, a village near Zagreb, Croatia.
Tito's greatest accomplishment during World War II was the organization of perhaps the most effective resistance movement in the history of Communism.
www.bookrags.com /biography/marshal-tito   (1516 words)

  
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Marshal Alexander pointed out to Marshal Tito [in conversations at Lake Bolsena in July, 1944] that their two forces would probably meet at a point somewhere along the coast at the head of the Adriatic Sea and that the line dividing the occupation zones should be established.
All of Marshal Tito's previous requests were incorporated, and the purpose of the written document was merely to verify once more, briefly and concisely, all the terms of the two previous meetings.
Marshal Tito said that, owing to the changed situation, the problem was now a political one and not a military one.
www.ibiblio.org /pha/policy/1945/450519b.html   (1702 words)

  
 Tito, Josip Broz - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
TITO, JOSIP BROZ [Tito, Josip Broz], 1892-1980, Yugoslav Communist leader, marshal of Yugoslavia.
In 1968, together with the Romanian party chief, Nicolae Ceauşescu, Tito led the opposition to the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia.
Tito was repeatedly reelected president from his first term in 1953, and in 1963 his term was made unlimited.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-tito-j1os.html   (1016 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Josip Broz Tito
Tito was born in Kumrovec, northwestern Croatia, then part of Austria-Hungary, as the seventh child in the family of Franjo and Marija Broz.
From Autumn 1913, Tito served in the military; in May 1914 he won a silver medal for the second place at a fencing competition of the Austro-Hungarian Army in Budapest.
Tito is buried in his mausoleum in Belgrade, called Kuća cveća (The House of Flowers) and many people every year visit the place, although it no longer has a guard of honour.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Tito   (629 words)

  
 Tito
Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980), president of Yugoslavia, who established a Communist state independent of the USSR after World War II (1939-1945), and later became a leader of the Nonaligned Movement.
Tito served as a noncommissioned officer in the Austrian army during World War I (1914-1918) and after the war he returned to Croatia to work as an illegal Communist Party organizer.
Tito died six years later after a prolonged illness and was buried on the grounds of Tito's Museum in Belgrade.
www.cbv.ns.ca /dictator/Tito.html   (684 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tito's biographer, Vladimir Dedijer claimed that it came from the Croatian romantic writer, Tituš Brezovački, but the name is very well known in Zagorje.
Tito was just shy of his 59th birthday, while she was 27, when they finally married in April 1952, with state security chief Aleksandar Rankovic as the best man. Their eventual marriage came about somewhat unexpectedly since Tito actually rejected her some years earlier when his confidante Ivan Krajacic brought her in originally.
Tito's notable grandchildren include Aleksandra Broz, a prominent theatre director in Croatia, and Svetlana Broz, a cardiologist and writer in Bosnia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Josip_Broz_Tito   (3096 words)

  
 Harry Truman on Trieste
Tito was a Communist, but he combined with his communism an appeal to the ardent nationalism of the Yugoslav peoples.
Tito was now plainly determined to use force to gain his territorial objective instead of waiting for a peace conference to settle all boundary claims.
We have now had a reply from Marshal Tito which is entirely unsatisfactory in that he states that his government is not prepared 'to renounce the right of the Yugoslav Army holding the territory up to the Isonzo River'.
www.milhist.net /trieste/truman.html   (4318 words)

  
 IISH - Today in 1943 : 4 December - Marshal Tito
Josip Broz Tito was secretary-general of the Yugoslavian Communist Party when, in April 1941, the Nazi's occupied his country.
Tito (1892-1980) had fought in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and after having been made prisoner of war by the Russians had enlisted in the Red Army.
Tito was appointed to be Marshal of the provisional government of democratic Yugoslavia.
www.iisg.nl /today/en/04-12.php   (106 words)

  
 Chapter XX Political Principle Versus Military Pragmatism in the Issue of Venezia Giulia
Tito made no secret of the fact that he intended not only to stay where he was but also to lay claim to the whole province at the peace conference.
Tito objected to this while agreeing fully to and pledging assistance in the matter of Allied Military Command and control of the port of Trieste and L of C required by Allied Forces occupying Austria or Hungary.
Marshal Tito had, however, asked why it was necessary to impose military government in the whole of Istria as control of the entire area was not essential for military communication.
www.army.mil /CMH-pg/books/wwii/civaff/ch20.htm   (15634 words)

  
 Tito - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Tito, Josip Broz (1892-1980), president of Yugoslavia, who established a Communist state independent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
In November 1942 the Partisans, temporarily in control of a large part of Bosnia, convened an Antifascist Council of National Liberation of...
Since the end of World War II the Communist Party has dominated Yugoslavia with Marshal Tito the head of the party and the country.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Tito.html   (118 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As premier and minister of defense from 1945, Marshal Tito ruled Yugoslavia as a dictator, suppressing internal opposition, executing Mihajlovi and jailing Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb.
Tito was first elected President in 1953, and reelected numerous times thereafter.
Tito was elected chairman of the new presidency in 1971, serving until 1980, the year of his death.
ehistory.osu.edu /wwii/PeopleView.cfm?PID=373   (641 words)

  
 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Tito Sees No Soviet Attack, Mather Says Following Visit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia does not foresee Russian aggression against his country, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, has reported after a visit this summer to Yugoslavia and its leader.
Tito is whole-heartedly a Communist, Mather added, but said he is a Communist who believes "Communist nations should have a large measure of independence in order that each may develop its own resources for the benefit of its own citizens, without becoming subservient to another."
Tito could not follow Stalin's orders, Mather reported, because he was aware of his countrymen's revolutionary temper, and because of the Marshal's own hatred for aristocracy in any form.
www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=476149   (734 words)

  
 The Hindu : Miscellaneous / This Day That Age : dated December 27, 1954: Tito in Simla
The Yugoslav President, Marshal Tito, merrily joined the hill folk of Himachal Pradesh in an open air dance at Theog village, 18 miles from Simla, on December 25.
Before he walked into the sunbathed arena, Marshal Tito watched from a high dais parties of dancers giving their best numbers in the crisp morning air.
Marshal Tito was so impressed with the function, one of the most colourful held in recent years, that he announced a donation of Rs.
www.hindu.com /2004/12/27/stories/2004122700700901.htm   (189 words)

  
 Part 2 • Occupation and AMG in Venezia Giulia
Finally, Tito was to be informed that if he failed to accept the military agreement SACMED would be compelled to refer the matter to London and Washington, with which Tito would have to deal in the future.
In the last meeting with Morgan, Tito was adamant in his contention that the matter had assumed a predominantly political significance, and in his refusal to accept the military terms.
He cabled Tito that as his counterproposal raised a political issue he was referring it to the American and British Governments, but that meanwhile he proposed to use Trieste and the line of communication to Austria and trusted Tito to take steps to avoid any regrettable incidents.
www.milhist.net /amg/komer2.html   (7167 words)

  
 Tito and his People by Howard Fast
Tito's answer was to give him arms, ammunition and food, and send him back with a political instructor who would co-ordinate the operations of his band with the whole partisan movement.
Tito sprang from the depths of Yugoslavia's struggle for freedom, from within the bosom of her exciting history of struggle, of national suppression, of factional strife, to unify his people and lead them to glory.
Today he is Marshal Tito whose name ranks in importance with Marshal Stalin, Dwight Eisenhower, General Montgomery and all the other leaders, an ally in the struggle against our common foe.
www.trussel.com /hf/tito.htm   (1468 words)

  
 Tito and His People   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A point should be made here — that the guerrilla bands which Marshal Tito had dispatched southward into Serbia the year before had played havoc with German lines of communication.
Tito was indeed happy to establish military liaison with the general headquarters for the Middle East for Tito was happy to work with anyone who fought the Axis.
Marshal Tito, fearing that a search would unearth and jeopardize his underground secret service in Zagreb got in touch with Allied headquarters.
www.marxists.org /archive/fast/1944/tito-people/ch18.htm   (738 words)

  
 Second American C-47 Shot Down   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Marshal Tito said he had witnessed the downing of one of the United States planes, but denied previous American protestations that it had been lost in the clouds.
Marshal Tito characterized these statements and “slanders” against his Army, adding that “all this is not true, as I have been myself a witness to this event.”
Marshal Tito said he did not direct his remarks at the Allied countries in question as a whole but against “reactionaries of such countries who want to misrepresent the true state of affairs in the world.”
home.earthlink.net /~highjack/shotdown2.htm   (712 words)

  
 ATL care of the Los Angeles Times - Alternate History Discussion Board
Marshal Tito Puente was that rare combination: political strongman and mambo percussionist.
Marshal Tito Puente was born Josip Broz in 1892 in the village of Kumrovec to a peasant family.
A newspaper review of the period referred to Tito's "ability to literally drive a crowd crazy with his spicy heat from south of the border," a skill that helped him in international diplomacy, as well as in his efforts to confine political opponents to psychiatric facilities.
www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?p=38   (887 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - Croatian film in the 1990s
The baby-boomer generation raised in the era of relative wealth during the golden era of Tito's regime (the 1960s and 1970s) strongly influences Croatian media, politics and economy today, but it is practically non-existent in Croatian cinema, literature and theatre.
Perhaps the most important factor behind the golden age of Yugoslav cinema was the fact that Tito was a film fan who regularly attended the national film festival in Pula and who, as legend holds, always kept a couple of reels of American Westerns in the cellar projection room of his villa.
Tito's regime did, too, but the difference was that Tito's Communist propaganda machine imposed a basic level of quality and required certain skills and craftsmanship from directors.
www.ce-review.org /00/19/kinoeye19_pavicic.html   (2801 words)

  
 Josip Broz Tito — Infoplease.com
Josip Broz Tito: Tito's Dictatorship - Tito's Dictatorship As premier and minister of defense from 1945, Marshal Tito ruled Yugoslavia...
Tito's pernicious legacy haunts a divided Yugoslavia: Balkanization is an art form in Serbo-Croatia.
Tito elected president of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia: January 13th, 1953.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0848882.html   (206 words)

  
 Donovan --> FDR - May 10, 1944   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
-3- eral Mihailovic and Marshal Tito to their legitimate tasks, namely, military commanders of the resistance forces within the respective areas controlled by each one of them separately.
The government should be the sole judge, after consultation with the military command of the Allies, as to how much aid should be transmitted to Marshal Tito and to General Mihailovic.
The Shepherd believes that the British went too far in dealing with Marshal Tito directly, thereby encouraging him greatly to attempt at this time to establish and perpetuate a political setup for the future.
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu /fdr/psf/box4/t55e04.html   (165 words)

  
 Betrayal of the Serbian ally
Tito, on the other hand wanted to use the situation of the world war and total anarchy to make Communists win and take control of the country.
On the surface Tito, a Communist and thus Internationalist, was to build an egalitarian society whose main slogan was ethernal "Brotherhood and Unity" among South Slavs.
Marshal Tito demanded the recognition of the National Liberation committee headed by [Croat] Dr. Ivan Ribar.
www.srpska-mreza.com /History/after-ww2/Chetnik-betrayal.html   (2858 words)

  
 american cinema foundation
Belgrade's charismatic WWII leader Josip Broz Tito somehow managed to hold that fractious country together until his death in 1980, a critical year in German and American politics as well.
In the vein of the 2004 Freedom Film Festival program "Spirit of Sarajevo", this year's selection of films by the Tito era's quartet of groundbreaking ex-Yugoslav directors bookends the idealistic and passionate rise of communist Yugoslavia under the larger-than-life figure of Marshal Tito, and the country's staggering fall into the quagmire of ethnic conflict.
In this highly entertaining doc an actor dresses up as (the late) Marshal Tito, and walks among the crowds asking passersby their opinions of Yugoslavian politics since his death.
www.cinemafoundation.com /free05/fff05_Yugo.html   (356 words)

  
 "The Marshal Tito Gambit" in The Enslavement of Mankind
"The Marshal Tito Gambit" in The Enslavement of Mankind
Tito ruled a nation which had been caught up in diversity battles, civil wars, and murder for a thousand years, due to the incursion of Suliman of Turkey and his Arab Warriors onto the Greek Mainland of Europe.
However, in the 1990’s communism was overthrown, the small diverse nations within the Tito nation of Yugoslavia declared their independence, and the wars began again as though Tito had never existed.
www.enslavementofmankind.com /enslavementofmankind_marshaltitogambit.htm   (432 words)

  
 Tomislav Sunic and Nikola Stedul: MARSHAL TITO'S KILLING FIELDS (Croatian Victims of the ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
On August 10, 1941, at the very beginning of the formation of Yugoslav Communist partisans units, late President Josip Broz Tito, stipulated that the "provocateurs, traitors must be immediately liquidated." Those who fell into this category were often advocates of Croatian state independence.
Evard Kardelj (under his conspiratioral name "Bevac"), in a written report sent to Tito regarding the liquidation of opponents, carried out by his partisan units, noted: "Our machinery of execution is made up of 50 well trained men, armed with pistols and hand grenades.
The reason for that was the fact that the Yugoslav President Tito, as a follow-up to the important Plenary Congress of the Yugoslav Communist League, which was held on the Island of Briuni in 1966, after having fired his chief of the Yugoslav Security, Mr.
english.pravda.ru /columnists/2002/02/13/26390.html   (3117 words)

  
 Marshal Tito's killing fields (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As a long-time Western darling, the late Yugoslav communist leader Marshall Josip Broz Tito had a far bigger share in ethnic cleansing and mass killings.
From these figures it may be concluded that the number of assassinations by the UDBA increased dramatically during that period.
The reason was the fact that Yugoslav President Tito decided to loosen up the repressive tools within Communist Yugoslavia, but sharpen up repression (UBDA killings) of Croatian emigres outside Yugoslavia in Western countries.
www.andrija-hebrang.com.cob-web.org:8888 /eng/marshal_tito.htm   (2906 words)

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