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Teacher Fajon could lecture Boss Thorez because Thorez, unlike Tito, had no army, no secret police that would protect him in defiance of the Cominform. Fajon, permanent representative of the French party on the Cominform, was just back from Bucharest. He bore a letter from Cominform Boss Andrei Zhdanov to Thorez. The Cominform message rebuked Thorez secretly for the same view of nationalism which had drawn the public thunderbolt of Cominform anathema to Tito's head. Zhdanov said that Thorez had not stuck close enough "to the basic and permanent principles of proletarian internationalism." As was clear from...
When the Kremlin thinks the "nationalists" have gone too far, it cracks down on them, as it did last week on Maurice Thorez (see below). Tito, however, runs much less risk of Moscow-inspired revolt in his party against his nationalist line. He can enforce his will in his own backyard exactly the way Stalin can enforce his will in the Russian party...
...this works was demonstrated last week by the case of Mosa Pijade, vice president of the Yugoslavia National Assembly, who was looked upon in some quarters as a possible leader of the anti-Tito faction in Belgrade. Pijade disappointed the hopeful by publishing a slavish defense of Tito in the party organ, Borba. The Cominform charges, said Pijade, were "violent and unscrupulous . . . full of inaccuracies and calumny...
...Powerful. What if Pijade had not wanted to write that? Over his shoulder looks Alexander Rankovic, head of Tito's OZNA, considered by many as the most efficient secret police force in the world. The OZNA was created Jan. 11, 1946. Rankovic spent January, February and March of that year in Moscow learning his business from Lavrenty Beria, head of the Soviet secret police, on which the OZNA is modeled...
...Yugoslavs to escape Rankovic's net in the present crisis was Lajos Dudas, a young Communist deputy who fled last week across the Hungarian border at Subotica, He said: "I was on the point of being arrested because I refused to repudiate the [anti-Tito] resolution of the Cominform...