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...further the industrial revolution in Yugoslavia, the World Bank last week gave Communist Marshal Tito a $30 million loan. The loan will include no dollars, but it will be the biggest mixture of European currencies ever passed in one package by the World Bank-some $10 million in French francs, $7,500,000 in Swiss francs, the rest in British pounds, Belgian francs, German marks, Austrian schillings, Italian lire, Dutch guilders, Norwegian kroner and Swedish kronor...
Paul, E. Zinner, author of "Tito and the Cominform," who was termed by council president Samuel A. Olevsen '54, "the man at Harvard who knows most about the trials," will discuss the question with Guy J. Pauker, instructor in Government, and Adam B. Ulam, assistant professor of Government...
...President in line with the nation's new constitutional reforms. Sounding for all the world like a Balkan Alben Barkley, old Yugoslav Communist Jovan Vesilinov rose to his feet to place in nomination the name of that great statesman, that friend of the people-Marshal Josip Broz Tito. The Parliament cheered. Were there any other nominations? asked Speaker Josip Vidmar. The Parliament roared with laughter...
Within minutes, ballot cards were passed out bearing a single name-Tito. The members were told to underline the name if they favored Tito, cross it out if they were against him, leave the card untouched if they wanted to abstain. The 569 members marked their cards, gravely carried them to the front of the house and dropped them into the ballot boxes. Clerks tallied the count, handed the totals to the speaker. With an air of shocked surprise, he announced the result: 568 votes for Marshal Tito; one vote against...
...dared to cast the dissident vote? Nobody knew, but many guessed: it might have been Tito, still hard at work preserving the appearance of democracy...