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...effort to show the world that he was a Communist with a difference, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito always let a few disgruntled critics of his regime run loose for the sake of appearances. He was particularly magnanimous about the idiosyncrasies of his fiery comrade in arms, Milovan Djilas, Vice President and head of Parliament, who talked of decentralizing the government and letting the state wither away. But Djilas began to be more and more critical. Tito drew the line in 1954 when Djilas, writing in the party paper, demanded more democracy and free discussion. The party Central Committee stripped...
...Class, smuggled out to Western publishers, Djilas wrote: "The totalitarian tyranny and control of the new class which came into being during the revolution has become the yoke under which the blood and sweat of all members of society flow." As chief controller of the new class, Tito was forced to take the remark personally; his court ordered seven more years added to Djilas' sentence...
Since that day, Milovan Djilas has sat alone with his thoughts in the gloomy old Sremska Mitrovica prison.* The prisoner may not have changed, but Yugoslavia had. Tito had promised the nation many of the reforms that Djilas had advocated. The constitution, due in 1962, would, as Tito himself put it, feature "man as a producer and manager while the state should appear only as a coordinating factor...
With no further ideological reason for Djilas' imprisonment, and with many Western socialists clamoring for his release, Tito for months had dangled freedom before the prisoner's eyes in exchange for a written pledge not to re-enter politics. Djilas refused to sign. But last week came the bland announcement that Djilas had been freed under a statute that authorizes a prisoner's release, "provided that he will not indulge in the activities which resulted in his imprisonment...
...Died. Tito Zaniboni, 77, World War I hero who in 1925 plotted to revenge the Fascist-directed murder of Fellow Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti by shooting Mussolini during one of his balcony orations, was betrayed by a conspirator, sentenced, and finally freed in 1943 by the Allies, who put him in charge of purging Fascists; of injuries suffered when he fell while boarding a bus; in Rome...