Most sought-after dictator in Europe last week:
Marshal Josip Broz Tito, 63, Communist President of Yugoslavia.
Born: May 25, 1892, the seventh of 15 children of a hard-drinking peasant; at Kumrovec, a hamlet in Croatia.
Early Life: Raised in poverty, he turned his family's millstone at the age of seven, but unlike most village children, learned the three Rs. As a teenager, Tito planned to emigrate to the U.S., where tens of thousands of Croats settled between 1890 and 1913. Instead, he got a job as a locksmith near Trieste.
World War I: Drafted into the...
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