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...Russian bloc was still raising its ante elsewhere. Foreign Minister Molotov, who had agreed to an internationalized Trieste at the Big Four meeting, proposed a new ten-point plan that would put Trieste in Tito's vest pocket. Tito's Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj demanded more Italian territory, barked that otherwise Yugoslavs would "fight for their rights." At week's end Molotov declared that, despite the Byrnes speech, Poland would keep its present western frontiers...
Belgrade intellectuals jeer that Tito heads a government of hillbillies, because the new civil service (carefully purged of nonCommunists) includes many a Partisan who can barely read & write. Actually, the Government is well-stocked with Communist theoreticians. Tito's chief adviser is meticulous, humorless Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 36, a former schoolmaster with a Goebbels limp and a Molotov mustache, who spent six years in Yugoslav prisons for writing Communist pamphlets. Later, he fled to Russia where he headed Odessa's Revolutionary School for the Balkans. Currently he writes most of Tito's prolific legislation and heads...
...Subasich had in fact lost all but his title a month ago. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had expected him in London to present Yugoslavia's territorial demands. Black-haired, bespectacled Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 35, showed up instead. The Foreign Minister, it was explained, had suffered a stroke and was home abed. He had-a stroke of a kind. And he was at home-under house arrest...