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...Soviet President Voroshilov. At a recent plenum of the Central Committee in Moscow, according to the story being circulated among the Belgrade Communists, Molotov (downgraded from Foreign Minister at the time of Tito's visit to the Soviet Union last June) had attacked Yugoslav Vice President Edvard Kardelj (a leader in Yugoslavia's 1948 quarrel with Stalin) as a "bourgeois diplomat." And to underscore Molotov's attitude towards Tito himself, a story was being told of a Peking reception at which Red China's Mao Tse-tung inquired of the Belgrade ambassador, "How is Tito...
Pigs at the Table. But Tito could reflect on how things have changed since his last visit to Moscow ten years ago. What happened then has since been described by Tito's Vice President Edvard Kardelj (who accompanied Tito to Moscow last week). Ten years ago Dictator Stalin threw a Kremlin banquet for Tito, then just recently emerged from Comintern obscurity to the eminence of a partisan hero and boss of Yugoslavia. Tito was clapped on the back by Stalin, who said to him: "What a pity, my dear Walter [Tito's Comintern name]. You are now living...
...entirely agreed with Djilas' criticisms of the party hierarchy. "There is a struggle on the lower echelon," said Dedijer, "but there is no fight on the top level for control. It would be nonsense to say that anything can challenge Tito's position. However, a man like Kardelj, whom I've always regarded as a true democrat, is being maneuvered by party discipline into a position that will put my blood on his hands...
Spit in the Face. A few hours later, Edvard Kardelj, the No. 2 man in Yugoslavia, the man who prosecuted Djilas and is now running the country while Titc is away, spoke up. "Every honest man would spit in the face of 'politicians' of this type," he told a party gathering at Sarajevo. That Djilas and Dedijer should air their grievances abroad, he said, represents "a filthy blackmail of our democracy...
...Tito's other rebel last week amiably sat back waiting for the disciplinarians to come after him. Milovan Djilas had been stripped of all his offices a year ago, and seemed readier than his friend to accept the consequences of his heresy. "If it had been Kardelj under attack, I would no doubt have been forced to lead the fight against him," he said. "That's the way Communist parties work...