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...correspondents still on duty there rate these Eastern European countries according to the difficulty of getting re-entry visas. At present the rating is as follows: Albania, impossible; Rumania, impossible; Bulgaria, almost impossible; Hungary, very difficult and getting more so; Czechoslovakia, growing more difficult all the time; Yugoslavia, easier by comparison, but not always easy...
Macedonia is divided among Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The Cominform plan calls for the several parts to be united in a separate "free" Macedonian state (see map). This would isolate Yugoslavia by creating a link between Bulgaria and Albania (both loyal to Stalin), and provide a base from which well-organized Macedonian terrorists would try to foment rebellion within Tito's Yugoslavia. Last month the Communist Macedonian Peoples' Liberation front called for a "struggle to free the Macedonian people from Yugoslav and Greek domination." The Cominform's long-range goal was common knowledge, even in Belgrade: dismemberment...
...Vafiades, who was ousted last February for deviation from the Moscow line. Last week, it was rumored that Hilary Minc, who had succeeded Gomulka as Poland's economic boss, was also on the skids. The most spectacular new outbreak of Titoism occurred in Georgi Dimitrov's own Bulgaria, where Deputy Premier Traicho Kostov was arrested last week with five high Communist officials and 300 lesser fry. Their crime: "Spying...
Last summer, when Kostov returned from a trade mission to Moscow, he still talked about the magnificent assistance Bulgaria could expect from her Soviet ally. But he soon found out that trade with Russia is a one-sided affair. He began to rebel against the slow, deliberate sacrifice of Bulgaria's economy to Russia. "He followed a policy which lacked sincerity and friendship toward the U.S.S.R.," said the Communists' bill of particulars against Kostov. "Comrade Kostov was moved by a conscious individualism [toward] unhealthy ambitions...
What Is Titoism? There was no direct connection, and not even much sympathy, between Titoists in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Poland. Kostov himself was one of the first to join in last year's general cry denouncing Tito. In his turn, Tito last week denounced Kostov as a capitalist agent. The various men who are becoming known as Titoists are not connected by political machinery or common purpose-although they may be some day. Titoism is not an ideology. It is a human reflex against Stalin's policy of putting Soviet Russia, the "Motherland of the Revolution," ahead...