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...Manhattan. In the stuffy ballroom of dingy Manhattan Center, they cheered their heroes (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, Claude Pepper) and hissed their villains (President Truman, James F. Byrnes, "U.S. imperialism"). Later, in Madison Square Garden, they gave a standing ovation to personal messages 'from Generalissimo Stalin, Marshal Tito, and Bulgarian Communist Georgi Dimitroff. They roared approval of Russia, UNRRA aid, Yugoslav claims to Trieste...
...Marshal Tito struck directly at the only organized force left in Yugoslavia with the power to criticize his dictatorship. Into jail he clapped grave, ascetic Dr. Aloysius Stepinac, 48, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia, and twelve Catholic priests. The charge: crimes against the people...
...Cried Tito: "I do not wish this to be considered a threat, but . . . there exists a law which forbids chauvinism and dissension...
...Martyr Complex." A month later Stepinac again criticized Tito's systematic efforts to discredit and disrupt the Catholic Church. He was jailed for 17 days, then summoned to Tito's presence. Said the Marshal of the Archbishop: "I consider that he suffers from a martyr complex...
...Tito decided to provide martyrdom. For the Archbishop had become the only spokesman for Yugoslavs, rendered voiceless and helpless by the OZNA (Tito's secret police). People knelt when Stepinac passed through the streets...