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, 07:35, 11 January 2010→Josip Broz Tito: ''Harry Truman''' (the President of USA) stated on the 23th of April in 1948, in a speech:
"''Tito's Yugoslavia also gained enormous prestige as a founder of the non-aligned movement, which aimed to find a place in world politics for countries that did not want to stand foursquare behind either of the two superpowers."''
"''Tito's Yugoslavia also gained enormous prestige as a founder of the non-aligned movement, which aimed to find a place in world politics for countries that did not want to stand foursquare behind either of the two superpowers."''
"''Despite all this, and although there was much substance to Tito's Yugoslavia, much was illusion too. The economy was built on the shaky foundations of massive western loans. Even liberal communism had its limits, as did the very nature of the federation. Stirrings of nationalist dissent in Croatia and Kosovo were crushed. The federation worked because in reality the voice of only one man counted - that of Tito himself."''
"''Despite all this, and although there was much substance to Tito's Yugoslavia, much was illusion too. The economy was built on the shaky foundations of massive western loans. Even liberal communism had its limits, as did the very nature of the federation. Stirrings of nationalist dissent in Croatia and Kosovo were crushed. The federation worked because in reality the voice of only one man counted - that of Tito himself."''
'''Harry Truman''' (the President of USA) stated on the 23th of April in 1948, in a speech:
''"I am told that Tito murdered more than 400 000 of the opposition in Yugoslavia before he got himself established there as a dictator"''
Reference from:[http://books.google.com/books?id=-Xkv7ym8hDYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Keeping+Tito+Afloat:+The+United+States,+Yugoslavia,+and+the+Cold+War&client=safari&cd=1#v=snippet&q=%20tito%20trade%20papers%20four%20hundred%20thousand&f=false Keeping Tito Afloat] by Lorraine M. Lees & [http://books.google.com/books?id=cgPc0rsBxSAC&pg=PA219&dq=josip+broz+Tito++harry+truman&cd=5#v=onepage&q=josip%20broz%20Tito%20%20harry%20truman&f=false Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy] by Anne R. Pierce
''(declassified documents from the 1990s)''
*Lorraine M. Lees is an associate professor of history at Old Dominion University in Virginia, USA.
*Anne R. Pierce Ph. D. Political Science from the University of Chicago. Independent Scholar & Author/USA [http://annerpierce.com/home/index.php]
== Encyclopaedia Britannica: Josip Broz Tito ==
== Encyclopaedia Britannica: Josip Broz Tito ==