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...sunny Adri atic island of Brioni, 340 miles from Belgrade, where the 75-year-old Tito called together a 155-man plenum of the Yugoslav Central Committee to name names and prefer charges. The leading plotter turned out to be Tito's erstwhile heir apparent, Vice President Aleksandar Ranković, 56. Tito accused his former guerrilla lieutenant of "conspiracy" to undermine Yugoslavia's economic reforms, of encouraging "damaging activity" by the state security police, and-most shocking-of bugging Tito's own home. Within eight hours Ranković had resigned, and-while denying the eavesdropping charge...
...Aleksandar ("Marko") Rankovic, Minister of the Interior, is of a different (and repulsive) type. Born in the Posavina 41 years ago of Serb peasant stock, he started life as a tailor. He became a Communist when still in his teens. He looks a perfect police chief-burly and iron-jawed, with eyes as cold and muddy as the Danube River in winter. In 1939 he was in Moscow, taking lessons in police administration from Lavrenty Beria. Rankovic is the most intensely hated man in Yugoslavia...
...stuff as was his late cousin, King Alexander, and unlike Alexander he has tried hard to placate the autonomy-minded Croats. Against the virtual certainty of losing Croatia and its neighbors if the German demands were resisted, Prince Paul advised their acceptance. His Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch, and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch agreed. So, naturally, did the Croatian Vice Premier, Vladimir Matchek, and Father Fran Kulovetch, the Slovene leader. The Minister of War, General Petar Pesitch, was doubtful...
...evidenced itself in rumors and unconfirmed statements-that Yugoslavia would accept nothing more than a non-aggression pact; that when trim, elegant German Minister to Belgrade Victor von Heeren strongly urged adherence to the Axis pact, and offered a plane to carry Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch to Berlin to sign, those gentlemen let it be known they liked to travel by train; that the first full-dress meeting of the Yugoslav Crown Council since 1934 was called to discuss the angry anti-Nazi rumblings of the Serbian, Croatian, and Slovene clans, parties, secret societies...
...month ago Yugoslav Premier Dragisha Cvetkovitch and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch had conversations with Adolf Hitler in Berchtesgaden. Last week it was repeatedly reported and denied (by interested parties) that Prince Paul himself had spent part of the week in the same place. Britain also was making representations to Yugoslavia, but the British Ministry was suddenly alarmed to learn that although Bulgaria had signed the Axis pact only the week before, Boris of Bulgaria had actually agreed to the Axis demands last November. Britain promptly told her subjects to leave Yugoslavia...