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...Moscow's wary, cautious eye, Bulgaria's ambitious Premier and ex-Comintern Boss Georgi Dimitrov and Yugoslavia's restless, bellicose Marshal Tito were pedaling too far and too fast...
Born. To Lieut. Zharko Broz, 22, son of Marshal Josip (Tito) Broz of Yugoslavia and his Russian-born wife: a son. Name: withheld by the censorship on Tito's family life. Weight...
Yugoslavia, according to St. John, was loaded down with physical burdens but miraculously buoyed up by love for Marshal Tito. Volunteers laboring on "the 1946 Youth Railroad" sang joyous songs declaring that "America and Britain will be proletarian lands some day too." "Brigades" of sun-bronzed youths, encamped in "pleasing" barracks, assured the visitors that they toiled "in harmony [without any] need for discipline." Author St. John gave one of the girl workers an American lipstick, asking her "when she looked at it ... to remember that in our country there are young people who also have freshness and ideals...
Friendly helpers were always at hand to clear up awkward points. Example: Tito's habit of taxing a citizen not according to how much he earns but according to how he earns it and "what contributions he's making to the society in which he lives." Author St. John was assured that this rather personal form of taxation was necessary because New Yugoslavia is "trying to feel her way slowly," and just hasn't got around to framing tax laws. In fact, says St. John, Tito is being so conscientiously slow that Yugoslavia "is actually operating without...
...constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers as a philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature has a great mystic purpose. But man founders. . . . Man, the one discordant note in the Symphony of Life . . . playing E-minor when...