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Milovan Djilas has been rebellious all his life, but he carried things too far when he loudly demanded that his friend and leader, Yugoslav Boss Marshal Tito, liberalize his Communist regime. Tito did not agree with his Vice President and wartime partisan comrade, but nonetheless told him: "Go on writing." It was cruel advice. For his efforts, Djilas was twice arrested, sentenced to nine years in solitary confinement for writing The New Class, the most devastating analysis of Communism yet published. Last year, after serving 3½ years of his term, the fiery Montenegrin was released on condition that...
Djilas' latest book, Conversations with Stalin, is painfully embarrassing to Tito. Any revelation of intimate Kremlin secrets might upset delicate Soviet-Yugoslav relations. The book discloses details of Tito's plan to move two army divisions into neighboring Albania and take over the Communist satellite. In January 1948, Djilas reports, Stalin enthusiastically supported the scheme, told the author: "You ought to swallow up Albania, the sooner the better."* But a few days later, the Soviet dictator changed his mind, fearing Tito's increased influence in the Balkans. Hastily, Stalin sent a telegram to Belgrade warning that...
...year-old son Salim in a small, white, two-story house in a quiet residential district of Tunis. An F.L.N. .guard was at the door; inside the hall lay a child's Teddy bear. In an era of flamboyant revolutionary figures such as Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito and Indonesia's mercurial Sukarno, Benkhedda is something of a surprise. Of medium height and medium age (42), diffident in manner, ascetic in habits, with his voice emotionlessly level and his expression forever veiled by dark glasses, Benkhedda resembles his nickname of M'sieu Tout le Monde (Mr. Every...
...ugly threats, it is said, Khrushchev should be helped to stay in power, since his downfall might bring a far worse man to the top-presumably an adherent of the militant Stalinist or Chinese line. Soviet diplomats, seeking concessions abroad, subtly encourage this view, and Yugoslavia's Tito has been plugging it. Lately, it has found new and prominent exponents in the West. Last week Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky, a veteran antiCommunist, startled readers with the strident prediction that "if Khrushchev falls, we shall have immediate war.'' On television, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon declared...
...easy for the West Germans to turn their backs on the Soviet proposal, for Smirnov has offered not the slightest hint of what political price Moscow might be prepared to offer in any negotiations. But in their pitch, the Russians have firm backing from all their allies-even Marshal Tito has stopped Yugoslavia's hate-Germany campaign to sweeten the atmosphere-and the Smirnov line still has some appeal in West Germany. Particularly interested: Erich Mende, leader of Adenauer's little Free Democratic coalition partners, who has long sought closer contact with Moscow to spur chances of German...