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...time wore on, they saw him less & less. A devout party-liner with a fierce feeling for the country of his birth, he was a wartime supporter of Tito, and when Tito broke with the Kremlin, Adamic broke too. He campaigned briefly for Henry Wallace in the 1948 campaign, then plunged back into his writing with the single-minded purposefulness of a dedicated man. Finally, he became a virtual recluse: his neighbors rarely saw him. Last year, the neighbors discovered that Adamic and his wife had simply vanished-their house was standing with locked doors and drawn shades amid...
Adamic, he said, had told him of receiving repeated threats because of the book. In 1949, he was twice visited by a man he knew as an "associate of Cominform agents," and twice warned against praising Tito. In 1950, four men in an automobile with Michigan license plates came to the farmhouse while Adamic was alone and demanded to see the manuscript. A laundry truck providentially drove up and they departed. Adamic kept the incident a secret from his wife, said Smole, but immediately packed up and moved surreptitiously to Manhattan Beach, Calif...
Bevan, with his wife, Labor Amazon Jennie Lee, and a troupe of other left-wingers, spent the summer in Yugoslavia, the new promised land of leftists who are no longer pro-Russian but are still pro-Marxist. Reporter Bevan, eager and ecstatic, told the Standard's readers about Tito's charm and the wonders of his regime : "The Yugoslavs are . . . good-looking people . . . proud . . . courageous [and] Prime Minister Josip Broz Tito is in all those respects representative...
...Tito himself was busy being friendly with visiting Americans, and hoping thereby to impress Stalin that any aggression against Yugoslavia might be the spark for World War III. W. Averell Harriman, on his way home from Iran, stopped over at Belgrade. He and Tito agreed, said Harriman in the purposefully indirect words of diplomacy, that a principal danger of war would come from the possible miscalculation by the Kremlin of the West's reaction to local aggression...
...York Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins, Tito flatly said that his country would fight on the side of the West against a Russian attack anywhere in Europe. Tito was plainly anxious to enter an unwritten mutual defense pact with the West...