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...trial for publishing articles which publicly criticized both the loose morals and the political rigidity of the party's top leaders, only two Yugoslavs spoke up in his defense. One was Djilas' exwife, Mitra Mitrovic. The other was Vlado Dedijer, who dared to take issue with Edvard Kardelj, next to Tito the most powerful figure in the government. "To speak quite frankly," said Dedijer to Kardelj, "I am not a robot and cannot automatically accept a view simply because of the authority of the man expounding it." Dedijer taunted the Communist Party for fearing new ideas...
...Purge. 36. In nearby Hungary, the puppet National Assembly dutifully crowned as Premier the hard-bitten Communist revolutionary: 1. Matyas Rakosi. 4. Georgi Dimitrov 5. Edvard Kardelj...
YUGOSLAVIA-Tito sent Edvard Kardelj and Milovan Djilas to the original Cominform meeting. After Tito broke from Moscow in 1948, all three were damned as "lackeys of the imperialists." Disposition: excommunicated...
Tito is still a little, lonely heretic in the broad expanse of Communism. He has long looked wistfully for signs of a big fellow-dissenter in China. Even Tito's men saw the point. Last week Yugoslav Foreign Minister Edvard Kardelj qualified the Review of International Affairs with the comment: Chinese and Russian rivalry was merely "a germ of controversy...
This trio would probably succeed Tito in a joint capacity if the marshal were to die or be assassinated. Probably no one of them has the personality to succeed Tito alone-Kardelj is too colorless, Djilas too impetuous, and Rankovic too well hated...