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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANATOMY OF A MORAL (181 pp.)-Milovan Djilas-Praeger...
Product of Apostasy. Few of the Soviet world's captive minds have been as alone as Milovan Djilas'. Once a Tito favorite and Vice President of Yugoslavia, Djilas eventually convinced himself that Communism is the inevitable foe of revolutionary ideals. This disenchantment produced The New Class (TIME, Sept. 9, 1957), a dazzling indictment of Marxism as the opiate of the masses. An earlier product of his apostasy is Anatomy of a Moral, 18 casual essays written for two of Belgrade's leading journals when Djilas was still the party's Red-haired boy. The speculations begin...
Reality's Representative. The jurists' commission does not try to make international law. It concentrates on specific violations of civil liberties. It sent observers to the political trial of Yugoslavia's Milovan Djilas and to South Africa's mass treason trial, and believes that their presence may have helped to shame the prosecution into redrafting the flimsy indictments of the 91 defendants in the South African trial. To New Delhi Britain sent a high-powered delegation that hoped, in after-hours talk, to impress on lawyers who had come from newly independent Commonwealth countries the need...
...Dead Sea Scrolls, and produced a series of earnest failures. Last week Armstrong deftly dodged the main issue of a most unlikely topic and pulled off one of the best shows of its season. The subject: The New Class, the anti-Communist political tract by Recanting Red Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav long beleaguered and now in prison for turning on the party and Dictator Tito. Armstrong's program-saving trick was to ignore the dialectic of the book, concentrate instead on the spectacle of a man standing alone against his old comrades...
...Dulles needed any kind of expert solace last week, he could get it from behind the bars of the Iron Curtain cell of Milovan Djilas, ex-guerrilla leader, ex-Tito crony, now imprisoned for writing scathing anti-Communist articles and the bestseller The New Class. Wrote Djilas: "Dulles makes great mistakes in timing and procedure; but despite such mistakes he undoubtedly has a greater understanding of the world political picture than any other man in America...