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...press," Dedijer complained to TIME'S Belgrade Correspondent Ed Clark last week. "It's my right to speak to the press . . . After all I was one of the writers of the Declaration of Human Rights in the United Nations." The appeal he had tried to cable to Marshal Tito in India, said Dedijer, came back with a message written on the reverse side: "The very fact that you should try to cable Tito shows that you need discipline and should be punished." It was signed by one of Dedijer's fellow members of the Central Committee...
With all the strength, intelligence and zeal he possesses-and he is well supplied with all-Vladimir ("Vlado") Dedijer, a strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) Serb, has devoted most of his life to Yugoslavia's particular brand of Communism and to its rugged messiah, Marshal Tito...
Dedijer failed to appreciate what his hero, Marshal Tito, and the harder Communist heads understood instinctively, that a totalitarian regime can relax only in limited and selective ways, or invite its own downfall...
...summoned before the Central Committee's powerful three-man control commission and told to prepare to defend themselves. Impetuous Vlado Dedijer listened for only two minutes, challenged the commission's charges and then stormed out of the room. He dashed off an indignant cablegram to his friend Marshal Tito, who had just left for India (see below}. The government telegraph refused to send it. Dedijer could hardly believe, it seemed, that Tito knew all about the Central Committee's action, and had probably told them only to wait until he got out of town...
...valet carefully blue-rinsed Marshal Tito's silver hair. The Marshal donned a corset, a medal-spangled uniform with extremely wide red stripes down the pants, then strode off to a fashionable garden party. Behind him through lines of bowing guests, like a plainly dressed retainer showing off a gorgeous bull mastiff, came India's Jawaharlal Nehru. After several days of such festivity, the Marshal decided that he should also demonstrate that he was a Socialist man of the people. Tito thereupon upset New Delhi's snob-laden society by inviting red-turbaned railroad porters...