Word: milovan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jacov Levi, United Nations correspondent since 1953 for Yugoslavia's official Communist paper Borba. Levi, 35, quit the party and his job in Manhattan, explained that Tito's defense of Russian intervention in Hungary and the arrest of former Yugoslav Vice President Milovan Djilas (TIME, Dec. 3) had convinced him that "the promised liberation and democratization in my country have reached a dead-end street." Levi, the only Red correspondent accredited to U.N. forces in Korea in 1951, asked asylum...
Last week six of Tito's secret police, accompanied by a judge, descended on the humble apartment of Milovan Djilas, no obscure person, but the former Vice President of Yugoslavia and onetime partisan comrade of Tito. The police seized all Djilas' recent writings and marched him off to jail. No charge was laid against Djilas. His presumed crime: he had written an article for New York's New Leader hailing the Hungarian revolution as a "new chapter in the history of humanity," in effect, the beginning of the end of Communism...
...Belgrade. On a balcony across the street a cameraman waits all day. A police car stands constantly at the curb, and lounging detectives peer into the faces of all who enter. Few enter, for here lives the one man in Yugoslavia who really bothers Marshal Tito: onetime Vice President Milovan Djilas...
...Palmoticeva Street Milovan Djilas (with or without British Socialism's help) appeared safe for the moment. But Belgrade's gossip, neither confirmed nor denied by the political police, probably as a means of further demoralizing their victim, has it that a special dossier of Djilas' "crimes" is being prepared, and that the police have been doing a lot of talking to Djilas' old friend, onetime Partisan Hero (and Tito Biographer) Vladimir Dedijer...
Shortly after midnight the trial ended. Out strode Milovan Djilas and Vladimir Dedijer wearing big smiles. They had been found guilty of "a criminal act of hostile propaganda," and Djilas had been sentenced to 18 months in jail, Dedijer to six. But both sentences were suspended and the heretics were simply on probation...