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Next the newspaper Borba (Struggle) -voice of the Communist Party-said that Copic's satires reflected "his line, his small bourgeois and anarchistic attitude -in essence, his reactionary and hostile attitude toward the present regime...
Milovan Djilas, Minister Without Portfolio, is 38, a Montenegrin from Kolasin. His wife, Mitra-Mitrovic, is a Communist intellectual and a minister in the cabinet of the Serbian Republic. Djilas, a graduate from Belgrade University's faculty of law, is co-editor of the Communist daily, Borba. Today one of his functions is to direct "agitprop," the psychological warfare branch of the Yugoslav government. A forceful, brilliant writer and speaker, Djilas, with his shock of black hair and lively eyes, is a more attractive personality than the other two members of the triumvirate...
While the Cominform sat, all the Balkans were abuzz with ominous rumor and foreboding fact. U.S. newsmen in Belgrade reported three mechanized Soviet divisions moving westward through Hungary and Rumania. Borba, the official voice of Belgrade, charged that Rumania was inciting Communists in Hungary, Albania and Bulgaria to join in carving up their larger neighbor with Russian help. Three recent train wrecks in Yugoslavia prompted Railways Minister Todor Vujacinovic last week to warn against impending Cominform sabotage. Two days later, fires broke out simultaneously in four parts of Yugoslavia's huge Romsa oil refinery in Fiume. A Russian warship...
When Communist ex-Minister of the Interior Laszlo Rajk went to prison last June as an "imperialist agent" and Titoist-suspect (TIME, June 27), there were rumors that his pal, the police chief, would soon share his fate. Last week Tito's paper Borba (which has shown before that it has a good pipeline into Hungary) reported that Hangman Gabor had killed himself in a Budapest prison...
...demonstrated last week by the case of Mosa Pijade, vice president of the Yugoslavia National Assembly, who was looked upon in some quarters as a possible leader of the anti-Tito faction in Belgrade. Pijade disappointed the hopeful by publishing a slavish defense of Tito in the party organ, Borba. The Cominform charges, said Pijade, were "violent and unscrupulous . . . full of inaccuracies and calumny...