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...Greek cavalry. U.S. military aid was pouring into Athens, but Soviet arms were also pouring across the Yugoslav and Bulgarian borders to help the guerrillas. The situation had the makings of a minor war on the pattern that was to become familiar in Korea two years later. But after Tito's break with Stalin, something went wrong with the Communist army in Greece. General Markos was reported "seriously ill." In the confusion the small, tough Greek army (with expert military guidance by U.S. General James A. Van Fleet) was able to drive the Communists out of Greece...
What had happened was only discovered later: in the big split between Tito and Stalin that year, General Markos had stubbornly continued to use both Yugoslav and Bulgarian bases, i.e., refused to take sides. Result: Greek Communist Boss Nicholas Zachariades charged him with "Trotskyite opportunistic behavior" and bounced him out of the party as a "fainthearted deserter from the popular democratic movement." Top Yugoslav sources guessed that Markos' illness was really a small round hole in the head...
...jail at Mitrovica, 40 miles northwest of Belgrade, was built (the story goes), and many people came to visit its inmates-who included, between World Wars I and II, such distinguished members of the subsequent Communist government of Yugoslavia as President Jbsip Broz Tito, successive Vice Presidents Milovan Djilas and Alexander Ran-kovic, and late Assembly President Mosha Pijade. The Communists had such an easy time of it in Mitrovica jail (Tito swotted up on Stalinism, Pijade , translated Das Kapital and smuggled it out to a printer) that when they took over, they made certain that their own victims...
...Communism generally" (TIME, Dec. 24). Sentenced to three years' hard labor, Djilas, 46 and in good health, had every prospect of surviving his sentence, re-entering Yugoslav politics and even in time becoming one of the challengers for the mantle of the 64-year-old Tito. Since his arrest Djilas' following has grown. Yugoslav peasants, confronted with rising prices, have been heard saying: "Djilas was right." But last week it was learned that the hands of Prisoner 6880 (Djilas) in Mitrovica's Block 2 were turning black and his knee joints stiffening as a result of cold...
Died. Mosha Pijade, 67, top Tito lieutenant for 20 years, leading theorist of Titoism, President of Yugoslavia's Federal People's Assembly; of a heart attack; in Paris, on his way home from a diplomatic mission to London...