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...Tito, who has improved the lot of his people somewhat in the past year (production and wages are up, the secret police are not so evident), had anticipated criticism of his one-party elections by foreigners. Said he: "Comrades, I would like to say a few words about our democratization. I know those abroad will say, as they have always said: 'But this is a one-party system!' We have explained hundreds of times . . . why in this country there cannot be what exists in their countries. According to my opinion, in our present stage of development . . . this would...
Nobody can say that Marshal Josip Broz, known these days as Tito, President and dictator of Yugoslavia, does not hold elections. Last week Tito held elections. The country's 10 million-odd voters swarmed to 25,000 polling places and elected 282 parliamentary deputies. For 265 of the parliamentary posts there was only one candidate. Tito himself was unopposed...
...proposition that no man is guilty until so proven. Few people remember today that Truman had all he could do to ward off those who would appease Russia at every turn. They do not remember that such obvious moves as the Greek-Turkish Aid program and opposition to Tito's thrust for Trieste aroused the bitterest condemnation. Few remember the Henry Wallace speech attacking Truman for war-mongering. Indeed, in the light of the rampant leftism of the times, Truman deserves congratulations, and not abuse, for adopting the course...
...recognizing Mao Tse-tung, wants his representative to take Nationalist China's seat (with veto) on the U.N. Security Council. The British argument: all governments in power should be recognized, not matter how they gained power or how they behave. Britain hopes to encourage Mao to become a Tito. The U.S. believes that recognition will vastly increase Red China's prestige and help to fasten Communism on all of Asia...
...Italians that the U.S. and Britain might renege' on their Zone A promise, as they had failed to deliver on their 1948 declaration that all Trieste should be Italy's. The Oct. 8 promises had not been carried out because of ugly threats made by Communist Dictator Tito of Yugoslavia, who already holds Zone B and who insistently trumpeted to the world that he would not see Zone A go to Italy without...