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Even if the economy does retain its rosy glow, however, a more serious prob-lem remains. Milovan Djilas, author of The New Class and former right-hand man to Tito, urged a diminution of centralized rule and greater personal freedoms as long ago as the 1950s. For his pains, Djilas spent nine years in Tito's prisons. Now he is worried that a 23-man presidency might go too far toward de-centralization and do more harm than good. "A 'collective presidency' instead of a president," he wrote last fall, "will aggravate rather than lessen the inefficiency...
...however, may well be the only man who can command the allegiance of the disparate peoples of Yugoslavia's six republics and two autonomous provinces. A Croat in a country dominated numerically by Serbs, Tito has been trying for decades to groom a suitable successor. His first candidate, Milovan Djilas, wound up in jail after criticizing some of Tito's methods in the 1950s; his second, Aleksander Ranković, was banished from the party in 1966 when he opposed Tito's policies of decentralization and liberalization. Both men are free today and live comfortably in Belgrade...
UNDER THE COLORS by Milovan Djilas. 557 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
Seldom has the compulsion to go to war been better portrayed than in this novel by Yugoslavia's most celebrated warrior-ideologue. Milovan Djilas wrote Under the Colors while serving a prison sentence for criticizing Tito's regime. But the book is not concerned with contemporary events. It re-creates the clash between Serbian and Moslem in Djilas' native Montenegro in the late 19th century. Djilas lost much of his own family in this incessant warfare; he grew up on legends of heroism and endurance...
...invasion. The West was slow to provide military aid, and in the beginning, insists Dedijer, its terms were harsh. Stalin wavered, partly in fear of starting World War III. Then, suddenly in 1953, the Soviet dictator died, and it was all over. Yugoslavs received the news as joyful liberation. Milovan Djilas, one of Tito's closest aides, reflected: "I am glad we struck out at Stalin while he was still in good form. I think his last thought before the stroke must have been: 'Ugh, Yugoslavia is not giving...