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Adamic, he said, had told him of receiving repeated threats because of the book. In 1949, he was twice visited by a man he knew as an "associate of Cominform agents," and twice warned against praising Tito. In 1950, four men in an automobile with Michigan license plates came to the farmhouse while Adamic was alone and demanded to see the manuscript. A laundry truck providentially drove up and they departed. Adamic kept the incident a secret from his wife, said Smole, but immediately packed up and moved surreptitiously to Manhattan Beach, Calif...
...Cominform clan gathered in Warsaw last week. Occasion: the seventh anniversary of Poland's Communist regime. The Communist nabobs, out in unusual force, were headed by Russian Politburocrat Vyacheslav Molotov, who is not in the habit of traveling to minor Red letter day celebrations in satellite countries unless he has good reason. Also present: Marshal Georgi Zhukov, recalled from the limbo to which he had been banished in 1946; Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, boss of Poland's armed forces (a week ago reported assassinated); Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht of East Germany, the top German Communist; Polish President Boleslaw...
...Zealand (pop. 1,850,000) lives by her seaborne trade. But for 16 years New Zealand's ports had been in the grip of the Communist-led Wraterside Workers' Union. * When the Cominform signaled a stepped-up cold war against the democracies four years ago, the union's headlock on New Zealand trade quickly slipped into a stranglehold...
...unvarying list of fifteen top Russians-the others being the twelve known members of Russia's Politburo, headed by Stalin. Nos. 13,14 and 15, who may soon be announced as Politburocrats, are: Mikhail Suslov, 49, newly appointed editor of Pravda, he travels in Europe on Cominform errands. Panteleimon Ponomarenlco, 49, also a member of the party secretariat; chief food stockpiler; former Premier of his native White Russia and billiard champion there. Matvey Shkiryatov, 68, Old Bolshevik (joined in 1906); for 30 years Stalin's man on the Party Control Commission; Trotsky called him "slightly drunken...
Dictator Tito rose from a sickbed (flu). Said he: "If I did not appear, you see, the Cominform would say I had been liquidated. We leaders of Yugoslavia are simply not permitted to be ill. But over there, when Stalin sneezes, it constitutes a tremendous contribution to the science of Marxism-Leninism." Seriously, he added: "Every inch of our land has been soaked in blood in the past, and, if necessary, it will be soaked in blood again. But it will remain ours...