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Died. Dr. Ivan Subasich, 63, wartime (1944-45) Premier of King Peter's Yugoslav government in exile and chief architect of the coalition government of Peter's Royalists and Marshal Tito's Partisans; in Zagreb. An early supporter of Tito, Subasich negotiated the agreement that eliminated Allied support of anti-Communist General Draja Mihailovich and paved the way to Tito's rise to power. In 1945 he served as Tito's Foreign Minister, went to Moscow to sign a 20-year treaty with the Soviet Union, but broke with the government six months later...
...touring U.S. Congressmen stopped off at Belgrade for a chat with chesty Marshal Josip Broz-Tito, Yugoslavia's Kremlin-backed strong man. Was it true, asked Republicans Karl Mundt and Frances Bolton, that Dr. Ivan Subasich had quit his job? Why yes, said the Marshal, adding that he hoped he could talk the handsome Foreign Minister out of leaving...
Same day, Tito announced Dr. Subasich's resignation. Subasich had complained in effect that their seven-month-old coalition had turned into a dictatorship, that the Nov. 11 elections would be a farcical Communist coup. Now Tito bluntly accused him of quitting to provide a "motive for foreign intervention...
...Subasich had in fact lost all but his title a month ago. The Big Five Foreign Ministers had expected him in London to present Yugoslavia's territorial demands. Black-haired, bespectacled Vice Premier Edvard Kardelj, 35, showed up instead. The Foreign Minister, it was explained, had suffered a stroke and was home abed. He had-a stroke of a kind. And he was at home-under house arrest...
...with Dr. Subasich last week went Juraj Sutej, Minister without Portfolio. Since 69-year-old Vice Premier Milan Grol had already quit, the regime was now thoroughly dominated by Tito's men who had swallowed the exile government...