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...Communists have almost throttled open opposition in Eastern Europe. Last week their stooges took over the remnants of Mikolajcyk's Peasant Party in Poland and denounced "Anglo-Saxon imperialism." Last fortnight a military court sentenced Rumania's Maniu to life imprisonment. Yugoslavia's Mihailovich and Bulgaria's Petkoff had long since been shot. Hungary's Communists had swallowed the Smallholders Party, and last week Czech Communists began to break up their opposition with arrests...
...small, backward countries of eastern and southern Europe, the Communists needed only to discredit, jail or kill a few men to silence all opposition. Thus, in Yugoslavia, the Communist dictatorship silenced opposition by first discrediting, then executing General Draja Mihailovich. In Hungary, they jailed the Secretary General of the majority Smallholders Party, Bela Kovacs (reported dead last week), and forced Prime Minister Ferenc Nagy into exile. In Rumania, they jailed Juliu Maniu, 74-year-old leader of the liberal Peasant Party. In Poland, Peasant Party Leader Stanislaw Mikolajczyk is expected to be in jail by Christmas (TIME, Sept...
...columns, the radio commentaries, the periodicals and publishing houses and other agencies of communication and education. When it goes into action, it can mold public opinion on many vital issues. Some brilliant feats have been pulled off-for example, the campaign for a second front, and the campaigns against Mihailovich and Chiang Kaishek...
...left the square in darkness, the loudspeakers hushed. Meanwhile, at another rally of the free electorate (complete with loudspeakers) Georgi Dimitroff, onetime chief of the Comintern and head of Bulgaria's Communists, warned anyone considering voting against the Government party: "It is worth remembering the fate of Draja Mihailovich in Yugoslavia...
...sufficient to bar its subject from getting a job or food. (Recently, a U.S. official living in Belgrade was informed by his maid that she had to quit and go to work for the Government without pay, as "punishment." Reason: she had declared she felt sorry for the condemned Mihailovich because he reminded her of her dead father...