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...peculiar demands of Communist ideology brought out unsuspected talents in this rural railroad switchman's daughter. By 1941, at the age of 24, mousy little Ljubinka had become one of the chief organizers of Communist partisan resistance in her home area, and, as the years passed and Tito Communism became the law of the land, Ljubinka's gifts carried her to loftier and loftier posts in the party and the government. She became Minister of Education in the Serbian government, a member of the local party's Central Committee, with final authority over Communist newspaper editors...
Matter of Form? Artist Barak met his fiancee, Oriah, soon after she arrived from Yugoslavia in 1951. The Orthodox Christian daughter of a Belgrade accountant, Oriah had been expelled by Tito's government for anti-Communist activities, had found Israel the only country ready to give her an immigration visa. But when Oriah and Moshe decided to marry, the local rabbi told them that Israeli law forbids Jews to marry Christians. The only way out was for Oriah to become a Jew, or for Barak to become a Christian-purely "as a matter of form." The young couple refused...
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...
Aboard his host's training ship Ghaleb, Egypt's Premier. Lieut. Colonel Gamal Nasser, chatted about cabals and kings and many things with Yugoslavia's ruddy Marshal Tito, recently returned from his state visit to the Far East and togged for the nautical occasion in his braid-laden admiral's uniform. Their conference lasted six hours while the Ghaleb steamed from Port Suez up the canal to the desert city of Ismailia...
Perhaps, the men in the Kremlin feared another Tito; perhaps, they wanted China as a very close ally. Whatever the reason, beginning with the ascension of Malenkov as Prime Minister, Russia made a number of concessions to the Chinese. Mao began to be treated with much more respect, and his ideological views were accepted as equal to those of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin...