Word: cominform
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...secret session of the Cominform in Sofia last month, Communist leaders spent an entire day discussing Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, 56, Prince Primate of Hungary. The decision to arrest him had already been made; it remained to concoct just the right charges...
...Cominform countries have refused to give Tito the industrial materials his rural nation needs. So, said Tito in a speech, the Yugoslav five-year plan must be drastically changed: less consumer goods, more machinery. Nobody, least of all Communist Tito, expected Yugoslavs to like the new program. He said that there were two methods of persuasion: "By words," or, if that fails,"across your back...
Speaking in Ljubljana, Tito took a new tack in his fight against the Cominform by appealing to leftists and liberals everywhere. In effect, he put his finger publicly on the unmentioned bogey of all Communist organizers: the rooted revulsion of the average man against abandoning his national patriotism and espousing so-called international classism...
...alas, this dilemma is compounded by the Cominform's economic boycott of Yugoslavia. In the exchange of goods, Tito disclosed, "a stand is taken toward Yugoslavia by the people's democracies which is worse than their stand toward capitalist countries...
...this might look like a hinted threat by Tito to turn to the West. The West, however, kept its fingers crossed. The latest issue of the Cominform journal, for the first time since the Tito fission in June, had no article attacking Tito...