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...Cyrillic. The target of Tito's wrath was not foreign or domestic enemies but a war of words between Serbs and Croats, who make up the two largest of Yugoslavia's six republics. Their languages are similar except for slight variations in idiom and pronunciation, but Serbian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet (as is Russian) and Croatian in the Latin characters of the West. The Yugoslav constitution recognizes Croatian and Serbian as a single tongue, and in official documents the government is supposed to employ variants of both languages...
...trouble is that Serbian is becoming the more equal language. Belgrade newspapers and most official documents are written in Serbian, 90% of the Yugoslav diplomatic corps is Serbian and the army is dominated by Serbian officers who give orders in their mother tongue. The Croats, on the other hand, have lately become more powerful because of rapid economic development in their northern region, part of a broad industrial step-up in Yugoslavia (see WORLD BUSINESS). Deciding that Croatian deserved more recognition, 17 Croatian organizations, led by the Croatian Writers Union, recently demanded a constitutional amendment making their tongue an official...
Whistle Blown. That started the battle. In reprisal, the Serbians drafted a counterdemand that Serbian students in Croatia be taught in their home language. Newspapers in both republics were soon filled with blistering editorials, letters and articles. In Croatia, factories, government agencies and schools began organizing anti-Serbian protests. It may have seemed like just a harmless dispute, but Tito knows how weak are the ties that bind Yugoslavia's six republics and how strong the regional rivalries. Fearing, the political consequences of the squabble, he blew the whistle...
Four times in the course of the week, Tito warned Serbian and Croatian intellectuals that he would tolerate nothing that might lead to a renewal of ancient enmities between the regions. Himself a Croatian, he booted the president of the Croatian Writers Union out of the Communist Party for "lack of vigilance and irresponsibility." Pouring scorn on the intellectuals as people who do not care about labor and productivity, he asked a group of workers: "Do you pay attention only to commas and full stops, or is there something else in which you are interested?" Actually, Tito is about...
Innocence & Enticement. Born in Bulgaria in 1885 as Julius Mordecai Pincas, the eighth of eleven children of a Spanish Sephardi and his Serbian-Italian wife, he was totally unconcerned with nationality. He Frenchified his name to Pascin, but he was equally at home in Paris, Munich and New York, where he eventually became a U.S. citizen in 1920. Nor did his riotous ways change with his location; everywhere he went, he liked to sponge up wine, Pernod and brandy, painted with 30 or 40 friends carousing about him in his studio. And mostly his subjects and companions were the girls...