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...Manhattan on personal business, young ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia insisted that his people were dissatisfied with Tito, added: "I think I am the solution." But he feared that U.S. aid to Tito "puts off the possibility of my early return...
...five-day conferences to take place eight times a year. For each meeting, he will invite some 30 to 40 notables from business, labor, the professions, politics and government to discuss such questions as taxation, the size of the armed forces, federal aid to education, what to do about Tito, what to do about Formosa. Before his guests arrive, an "intellectual task force" of scholars will chum out background research. When the assemblymen have talked their way through the problems, their conclusions will be published for the rest of the U.S. to chew...
Last week Tito's Yugoslavia went egalitarian. A government decree, effective Nov. 1, closes all special food stores that serve party members and officials. Urban Yugoslav Communists will have to carry ration cards like other city dwellers. Special rest homes and resorts for the elect will be closed. Government agencies are forbidden to buy carpets, curtains, pictures and other items of interior decoration. After Nov. 1, nobody will be able to get free gasoline...
Reason for the Spartan decree is Yugoslavia's present food shortage (TIME, Oct. 16) caused by a severe summer drought. Housewives standing in long lines for meager bread rations grumbled when they saw the colonels' and the commissars' ladies breezing into well-stocked special food stores. Tito could have applied the new equality only to food, but he apparently considered it politically expedient to extend the measure over the whole field of amenities available to Communist party members. It all went to show how rapidly a vice such as egalitarianism could eat into an otherwise uncorrupted Communist...
Last week Tito was tightening the Yugoslav belt. The third of the population which carries ration cards had its bread cut by 10%. The quotas of grain which each peasant community is required to sell to the government were sliced by an overall 43%. Reported U.S. Ambassador George V. Allen to Washington: "There will be serious starvation...