William Klinger - Titos Secret Empire: How the Maharaja of the Balkans Fooled the World

TITOS SECRET EMPIRE

WILLIAM KLINGER
DENIS KULJI

Titos Secret Empire

How the Maharaja of the
Balkans Fooled the World

HURST & COMPANY, LONDON

First published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by

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William Klinger and Denis Kulji, 2021

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To the memory of the authors, Denis Kulji and William Klinger
RIP

Il y a deux histoires: lhistoire officielle, menteuse, puis lhistoire secrte, o sont les vritables causes des vnements.

Honor de Balzac

On Stalins secret orders. The American magazine Liberty depicts Tito, who had been an organizer on the side of the communists during the Spanish Civil War. After England and the USA had to drop Peter II at Stalins request, Tito was glorified by them as a Balkan freedom fighter. From Signal, a magazine published by the German Wehrmacht from 1940 to 1945.

CONTENTS

Formal reception on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the State Security Administration, Belgrade, May, 1944 (left to right, Aleksandar Rankovi, Ivan Stevo Krajai, Slobodan Penezi Krcun, Cvetko Uzunovski, Maks Bae, Nikola Vujanovi, Jovo Kapii, Boris Krajger, Veljko Miunovi, Andrija Pejovi, Ugljea Danilovi, Svetislav Stefanovi ea).

J. B. Titos vacation on the Brijuni Islands, July, 1949.

The reception for John Phillips, photographer for Life magazine. Brijuni islands, July, 1949.

First snow on 15 Romania Street (later Uika), J. B. Titos residence, Belgrade, December 29, 1949.

A game of pool at 15 Uika Street, March, 1950 (Edvard Kardelj, an unknown guard, Tito).

Visit to Pula airport and the inspection of the first shipment of US airplanes, February, 1952 (foreground, Edvard Kardelj, J. B. Tito, Vladimir Bakari; background, Koa Popovi, Jovanka Budisavljevi and Ivo Popovi ani, Titos physician).

The reception in honor of Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Brijuni Islands, June, 1952 (from left to right, J. B. Tito, Louis Mountbatten, Sreko Manola, Sir Ivo Mallet, British ambassador to Yugoslavia).

The reception for the members of the British Conservative Party in the Yugoslav Embassy in London during Titos visit to the United Kingdom. London, March, 1953 (foreground, Sir Winston Churchill, J. B. Tito; background, Sir Ivo Mallet with spectacles).

Visit to the Acropolis during the official visit to Greece. Athens, June, 1964.

Grand reception at the Delhi Municipal Committee when J. B. Tito was bestowed an honorary citizenship of Delhi, December, 1954 (Josip Broz Tito and Jawaharlal Nehru).

Formal dinner party with the Maharaja of Gwalior. Gwalior, December, 1954 (from left to right, Radivoje Berovi, Titos private physician, Ivan Stevo Krajai, an unknown lady, Josip Broz Tito, an unknown lady, Aleksandar Rankovi).

Passing through Nyaung-U on the way to visit the temples of Bagan, Burma, January, 1955 (Josip Broz Tito and General Milan eelj, chief of the military cabinet).

Receiving Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of Egypt, on the yacht Galeb during the return voyage from state visits to India and Burma. Suez, February, 1955 (left, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Abdel Hakim Amer; right, J. B. Tito, Aleksandar Rankovi and Marko Nikezi, the Yugoslav ambassador in Cairo).

Josip Broz Tito receives Nikita Khrushchev during the first official visit of the Soviet delegation to Yugoslavia. The White Palace, Belgrade, May, 1955.

The first official visit of the Soviet delegation to Titos Yugoslavia. The White Palace, Belgrade, May 1955 (from left to right, Anastas Mikoyan, Nikita Khrushchev, Jovanka Broz, Josip Broz Tito, Nikolai Bulganin, Andrei Gromyko).

Formal reception for the Soviet delegation at the White Palace, Belgrade, May, 1955. The crowd greets Mikoyan, Bulganin, Tito, Khrushchev and Jovanka Broz; also present, General Bogdan Oreanin in his uniform with the medal of the Order of the Peoples Hero, Milo Mini with a bow tie, Spasenija Cana Babovi with black gloves, General Ivan Rukavina, and the chief of protocol of the presidents cabinet Dr Sloven Smodlaka with a bow tie, in the right corner.