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Even Yugoslavia had an Opposition. In the tightest police state in Russia's Europe, Dr. Milan Grol and his Serb Democratic Party published an Opposition newspaper, campaigned actively against Tito. They had little hope of swaying the Nov. 11 elections, but they were trying. In Austria, where free elections are to be held under Big Three auspices on Nov. 25, the total Communist vote is not expected to exceed...
...with Dr. Subasich last week went Juraj Sutej, Minister without Portfolio. Since 69-year-old Vice Premier Milan Grol had already quit, the regime was now thoroughly dominated by Tito's men who had swallowed the exile government...
...Tito had a measure of popular support, largely in rural areas and among Yugoslav youth. Unlike an unalloyed police state, the regime not only permitted but deviously encouraged a certain opposition. Milan Grol's critical new weekly, Demokratija, allotted newsprint despite the paper shortage, was a sellout. Said he: "Now I have both the people I want and those I don't want. Every malcontent in Yugoslavia is on my side." The result perhaps explained why Grol was allowed to operate...
...Sided Plan. In the industrial north, the dread of the average man was deepest. It was no secret that in Milan, Genoa, Turin-the centers of leftist stirrings-Communists had large stores of arms and ammunition. It was an open secret too that industrialists and large farm owners were also armed, prepared to resist any attempt of workers and peasants to take over their factories and estates. In Milan it was common talk that the Association of Industrialists and Agriculturalists had a huge "protective fund"-some 180,000,000 lire ($900,000)-and was spending it on strong-arm squads...
...year-old John McCormack went off to Milan to study. Two years later he was on the Covent Garden stage himself, singing Cavalleria Rusticana. And in another two years he was a hit at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House. Critics still had reservations: they referred to him as "the best endowed lyric tenor of his time." Ah, but singing Kathleen Mavourneen or Irish Eyes when Al Smith or Jimmy Walker or any other good Irishman was about, he'd steal their hearts away...