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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...
...Building. A waiting crowd of about 100 students set up a derisive howl: "Traitors! Bandits!" The two men in the lead, one a slight, wiry figure, the other a burly, tousled man, pretended not to hear. But at the doorway the small man turned to the taunters. "Kush!" cried Milovan Djilas, using the word Yugoslavs generally do to quiet howling dogs. Then Djilas, the deposed Vice President of Yugoslavia, and his companion, Vladimir Dedijer, friend and biographer of Marshal Tito, went inside to stand trial for daring to criticize Tito's Communist regime...
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...