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...before, U.S. reporters in Belgrade had cabled more explicit views by Comrade Popovich. In Tito's theoretical organ Kommunist, a few weeks before setting off for Washington, he had written a long piece about the irreconcilable struggle in the world between Marxists and U.S.-led "imperialists." Excerpts...
Popovich was a hamhanded, 6 ft. 3 in. Montenegrin hillbilly who had quit his medical studies in Belgrade to fight with the Reds in the Spanish Civil War. In 1938, in Paris, he met the new secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party, one Tito, who took a liking to the big Montenegrin. In Tito's guerrilla war against the Nazis, Popovich rose to general. He also met Vjera, and in 1946 he married...
Last week Popovich, now 36, arrived in the U.S. with pretty wife Vjera, to take up his new job as ambassador from Communist Dictator Tito. Dressed to the nines, like an oldtime bourgeois-diplomat swell, Popovich portentously told reporters in New York: "I am confident, and so is my government, that we will meet [in the U.S.] with ever-increasing understanding and ever greater assistance." He criticized "bloc systems" in the world, charging with lofty impartiality that they led to war-"from whichever side the blocs originate...
...first duty of an ambassador is to explain the regime of the country he represents. In this sense Comrade Popovich had made a good start. He had demonstrated to the people of the U.S. that a Tito Communist is still a Communist...
Harsch believes that Russia's strength, like that of all religious states, is weakening around the edges, Tito, of course, is the obvious example, and the author thinks America's best hope lies in the nationalist heresy. He also takes courage from the failure of the communist coup in Finland in 1948 and the Western victory in Austria (though I think the rumblings of neo-Nazis in the latter place undermine his statement that "Austria is a great Western success story...