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With all the strength, intelligence and zeal he possesses-and he is well supplied with all-Vladimir ("Vlado") Dedijer, a strapping (6 ft. 3 in.) Serb, has devoted most of his life to Yugoslavia's particular brand of Communism and to its rugged messiah, Marshal Tito...
...struggling prewar days, Tito frequently found sanctuary from the King's police in Dedijer's house. In the terrible wartime days as a partisan fighter against the Nazis, Dedijer watched his first wife die in combat at his side, and was so shot up himself that a large part of his skull is surgical silver. After the war he edited the official party newspaper, Borba, sat in the Yugoslav delegation in the U.N., and generally proved himself one of the most promising of the brash and brave young revolutionaries. He eloquently supported Tito's break with Stalin...
Dedijer failed to appreciate what his hero, Marshal Tito, and the harder Communist heads understood instinctively, that a totalitarian regime can relax only in limited and selective ways, or invite its own downfall...
...before the Central Committee's powerful three-man control commission and told to prepare to defend themselves. Impetuous Vlado Dedijer listened for only two minutes, challenged the commission's charges and then stormed out of the room. He dashed off an indignant cablegram to his friend Marshal Tito, who had just left for India (see below}. The government telegraph refused to send it. Dedijer could hardly believe, it seemed, that Tito knew all about the Central Committee's action, and had probably told them only to wait until he got out of town...
...Sainteny set out for Hanoi with a 20-man mission and the blessings of Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Sainteny defined his objective as "preventing bridges being burned," argued that the Vietnamese people of Hanoi must surely need French culture, and that French technical assistance might create a Tito out of Ho. More skeptical Westerners shook their heads. "Sainteny's a nice fellow," said one, "but he believes in fairies...